(10 Mar 2021, 3:56 pm)Andreos1 wrote I don't think it's necessariky about linking up housing estates to housing estates. More about seeing where the flows are and doing something about it. 
I only see operators moaning about flows causing delays. Not doing anything about taking advantage of those flows and operating services in those areas. 
There are people living in North Tyneside who work on North Tyneside, but there's absolutely no straightforward way they can make that journey. 
Living in Forest Hall, but working at Cobalt. It's going to be car all day long.
Ditto for those living in Marden but working at Quorum. 
It's OK for those living in Tynemouth or Whitley Bay and working in the town though. As long as they can get beyond the pinch points and queues caused by people who are going to Quorum or Cobalt. 

It's the same with Team Valley. Major centre of employment, but an absolute pain to get to using public transport from anywhere other than the likes of Bensham, Heworth or Felling.
Then operators push for bus lanes and priorities through Birtley. The irony of operators being stuck in traffic, complaining about the traffic, yet not giving the people in the cars a viable alternative, mustnt have hit home in ANE or GNE towers yet.

It's bonkers.

I've just picked up this ( ) from the Quorum site. 

What is interesting is where the buses originate from and terminate. 
52 buses an hour and they're all from and to pretty much the same place. There's nothing there (without at least one change - probably involving another bus operator or the metro) from some of the more densely populated areas of North Tyneside.

Ditto Cobalt ( ). It looks impressive on the fancy spider map, but the majority of the services shadow each other or involve some sort of change between mode and operator. 

I used to witter on about Dalton Park and it being brilliant for public transport if you lived in Seaham...
Thankfully it is a little bit more accessible these days. 

There's so much more operators can do to make travel more attractive, than sticking in a table, a couple of plugs and some WiFi.
Improving the network and having buses go where people need them to go (particularly during peaks) will reduce the numbers of cars on the roads. 
It's not rocket science.