(29 May 2021, 10:06 pm)Malarkey wrote Their certainly quite a few corporate versas allocated daily and this been the case for a few months now with odd rare allocation thrown in also, today was a Toon Link Omnicity.

I'd certainly say those Versas need replacing after 10 years Orbiting/Quaylinking.

There's not enough buses for there not to be corporates on. They repainted some of the Q1/Q2 Quaylinks at the same time they moved the Q3 ones about. Plus there's 2 repainted for the NHS Shuttle.

(30 May 2021, 5:58 am)ne14ne1 wrote I think the Quaylink name should remain, it says what it does on the tin - a link to the Quays. And what with the new NGQ Arena & Conference Centre being built, Quaylink is surely the most suitable name. You can imagine arena-goers in East Gateshead (or those turning up in Central Newcastle or Gateshead Interchange not wanting to walk down to the arena) seeing the Quaylink and thinking ah we can jump on that.

I wonder if once the arena is up and running Quaylink could justify double deckers (with dual doors). Although I don’t know if single decks are better for the steep hills at Hillgate Quay & Dean Street?

Most concerts start at roughly 8pm and the last bus is 18.10 so it's not much use really. It definitely doesn't warrant deckers, very very few people after the concert will be thinking about using a short bus to another bus as it's just not something you do (experience) because it'll be heavily delayed and take twice as long because of it being stuck with traffic/people from the gig