(02 Dec 2020, 9:46 pm)Dan wrote I don’t know what we hear more of - you twisting about the North Tyneside network (which I never seem to see any complaints about on social media from customers) or rumoured re-allocations for the Consett X-lines network...

tbf there was a lot of moaning when you cut the 40/41 in half about not being able to get to the health centre in Howdon not sure if they found another way.

(03 Dec 2020, 1:28 pm)Stanleyone wrote Constant negativity whatever GNE do. This used to be a good forum, sadly no longer. Time to log off for the final time.

Sad to see you go, one of posters on here who backs stuff up with facts rather than wild ideas.

Also for the North Tyneside network it's a mess tbh but it's hard to blame anyone really being realistic. There's just too many operators and the lack of multi transport tickets (or the awareness of them / difficulty to buy them lately) it's become a bit of a mess. It's one area which DRT would really would imo and routes like the 41 should be part of it and anything else that's subsidised either all day or evenings (exception for the 11/19). DRT would be perfect for the likes of the 41, W1, W2, W3, 59, 306 (North of Tynemouth), 333, 335 (East of Cobalt), 359 with people having the option of going where they want and when they want (half of them are horrible infrequent, don't run at nights at all or have different operators) with an option to connect to another service somewhere else ie. the 308, 309 in Whitley, 310 in N. Shields, 1 or the Stagecoach services in Wallsend or the Metro with little / no cost to use the DRT bus. I know it was mentioned in the bus futures document the other day and I wouldn't be surprised to see it happen soon tbh and if it was advertised well I could see it being quite popular from some of the poorer served areas to get to a more frequent route in particular the Metro. It's definitely the future and would be a lifeline for places like the local estates in Whitley, Murton, Backworth Village, Cullercoats etc which have poor links to certain places.