(12 Jul 2021, 11:53 am)Adrian wrote I don't disagree, but it comes down to a chicken and egg situation. The ideal solution would be an 'out of hours' DRT service, which I hope the impending enhanced partnerships scheme would look to offer and it would be well used. Because even with 24 hour services on the likes of the 21 and 56, its never going to be possible to ensure everyone can get a conventional bus out of hours, at a frequency where it's going to be convenient to use.
I'm not sure it is a chicken and egg situation in this case.
The passengers are there. Just as they are at Amazon. Just as they were at Npower.
A pro-active commercial department could work with the NHS trusts and find out exactly what demand there is and where the flows are.
The relationship is already there with Newcastle NHS and could easily be developed beyond what is in place now.
Staff are paying in to a system that they can't always use, the trusts are paying for parking at places like SJP and contracts have been in place previously - shuttling staff back and forth between the QE and the overflow carpark a mile up the road.