(21 Jun 2021, 5:14 pm)Andreos1 wrote Surely it's just as important for passengers boarding 60mins down the road as it is for those boarding at Gateshead.
Someone getting on the bus at Easington Lane, but getting off in Newcastle needs to know where the bus will drop them off, just as much as those boarding at Gateshead and travelling for 2 stops.
Someone boarding in West Auckland needs to know where that X21 is going to drop them off, just as someone boarding for the last leg from Gateshead does.
The same applies for those people getting on the 2 on Chester Road and wondering where in Washington it will take them.
Good job it displays The Galleries for those people in Penshaw. Cos I would hazard a guess they were just as important as the ones getting on half a dozen stops prior. Not more important.
Someone in Middlesbrough may decide on using the train as its easier to determine where abouts they get off, than it is on the X9/10.
Genuinely have my mind blown at the perceived point, that the blind for passengers making a short journey is more important than for those making longer journeys and could be less familiar with that terminating point
I think the answer here is that you can only put so much information on the front of the bus.
As Dan says, those using buses from further afield don't have the same choice as those boarding from Gateshead Interchange, and I largely agree with that. You'll never please everyone in Hetton for example, for where the X1 stops in town. Those who have a real problem with it can alight at Gateshead, and then choose one of the buses every couple of minutes, to a variety of different locations in town.
As for the actual destination point, this is already clearly available in a range of places: bus stop liners, timetable booklets, GNE/Nexus websites, GNE Smartphone app and Bustimes. You can see in this example, the liner from Wrekenton shows numerous Newcastle-terminating services, but clearly showing which part of the town they terminate: https://liners.nexus.org.uk/22028.pdf