(09 Jun 2021, 10:49 am)Andreos1 wrote See, I know others who are going out earlier and coming back earlier.
You've got BTRBC under the Tyne Bridge plus the Baltic, Sage and the hotels along there too. Hard Rock has just opened. 
It's not all the Livello or Aveika crowd.

For all the Q3 does a job, it's not very attractive for those on the Quayside who are needing to head south or connect with something at Gateshead.
Adrian mentioned the 56 a week or two back, there's the 53/54 which could easily be sent down there on an evening or even a 21.
Very little outlay or expenditure to do so, but there is the potential for an increase in revenue and custom.

As an example, it's often easier me climbing up to Shields Road or New Bridge St and getting the first bus in to the town (before coming back out again) if I'm down the Ouseburn.
A reliable connection between the Q3 and something south at the bottom of Dean Street could be a lot easier (and cheaper) for me and many others.


Isn't it just. Yet the legacy and habits created back then, still last now.
I remember the last 194 from Heworth that left at 23.15 and terminated at Newbottle was always heaving on a weekend.
It would pick up and drop off at various points, but always (like 2 or 3 other runs prior) miss out Fatfield and chucking out time there.

Some people are stuck in there habits and even if we have a few quiet ones in the club, the idea that the 4 runs down there near chucking out time still surprises some. They still remember the void 25/30 years ago.
Mind, they're probably the same folks that would call the 49, the 649!