(22 May 2021, 3:16 pm)tynesider wrote Here’s a question - Given the fact that Haymarket and Eldon Square have not been permitted alighting points (except by exception) for almost a year now, is there a reason terminating services still show these rather than St. Mary’s Place / Newgate Street?

The cynic inside me says that if we can spend time moving route numbers, incorporating new fonts and shrinking suffix letters - All for no good reason in my humblest of opinions - then surely we can accurately reflect where the bus will actually terminate?

Of course, we could be really pioneering and stick with “Newcastle” for the entirety of the journey!

Very good point that destinations could’ve been adjusted to say St Mary’s Place, or Newgate Street for example. That would’ve been helpful as the NSAs would’ve also warned the bus was about to terminate on the approach to those stops rather than the drivers having to shout up to passengers, (if they bothered at all).
Saying that, can you not ride all the way into the bus stations now, or are they still boarding only?

I’m not sure if you last comment about just having ‘Newcastle’ as the destination for the entire journey was a joke or not, but I’d have to disagree. Having a stream of buses at Gateshead Interchange for example all saying ‘Newcastle’ isn't helpful as some will be terminating down at Central Station, then others up at Eldon Square.
Equally a bus approaching the Coast Rd (Benfield Rd), Scotswood Rd or West Rd stops with the destination as Newcastle isn’t too informative either as passengers at those stops are already in the City of Newcastle - so if the tech is available switch it to a more specific street name or place. 

As you say there’s been a lot of non-essential titivating going on, yet the X1’s destinations STILL don’t seem to have been programmed to switch to ‘Eldon Square’ Why has the X1 been left out?