(04 Nov 2020, 11:24 pm)streetdeckfan wrote I think it's the fact that the name is, pardon my French, shite.

It sounds like a half arsed attempt at making it something different, and it just doesn't sound right when you say it out loud. I can't even imagine how bad it's going to sound coming over the NSA.

Quaycity is actually more restrictive than Quaylink as it implies it only links the quay and the city together, of which Great Park is in neither.

Plus, Quaylink is perhaps one of the best route brands GNE have in terms of describing what the route actually does, it links places to the Quay.

Sure, the Q3 was perhaps stretching the brand a little, but QuayCity is no better at all, if anything I'd say it's worse.

You like pink, I like purple.

These things are always going to divide opinion. Doesn’t detract from the reasoning that in a normal world, the focus of the route (rightly or wrongly) has moved away from that Quayside to the City Centre itself.

Great Park, in a normal world, is used as a Park and Ride site for commuters into the City Centre. It/when the world recovers, there will need to be a big push on getting those commuters back. It’s going to be an uphill battle as a lot of businesses continue to tell their staff to work from home. If they’ve managed to do it for twelve months (or more), many won’t return.

There’s a growing leisure and hospitality sector in the City Centre itself - again, in a normal world. Sure there’s still some demand for the more classy/upmarket bars on the Quayside, but the people in these bars are likely to be the people who don’t use buses.

The Q2 as it was is no more, the Q3 serves an entirely different purpose nowadays and the whilst it’s a pity the traditional name hasn’t been upheld - I get that and I agree - I don’t agree with the comment that Quaylink is better for the Q3. When the growing focus of the route is away from the Quayside, why name your brand entirely around the small section of route with the fewest passengers?


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