(25 Jul 2021, 6:33 pm)Storx wrote See honestly I thought Follingsby is a bit of weird one as there's no bus service near there to Newcastle so your going to have buses pretty much running parallel to the Metro and it's more buses going into Newcastle etc which if it becomes unpopular is counter productive.

Personally I think they'd be better off just building a decent multi storey at Heworth and utilising the Metro from there which is every 6 minutes (off peak), every 3 mins (peak). Then if they built the Gateshead Quays train station which is rumoured they could have a shuttle train from Newcastle to Heworth and use that multistorey for events etc and could easily use it for the GNR (Metro to South Shields / Newcastle) and the Airshow aswell (Metro to Seaburn).

Least at Eighton Lodge you already have the 21 running through which if needed could easily be made more frequent with some buses terminating at the P&R, maybe more X21 buses either.

But why consider buses as the only feasible option for a Park and Ride anyway? Rail and Metro, reliability permitting, offer a faster route into Newcastle and don't suffer from delays brought about by traffic (cars won't just disappear). I mean, I take your point about buses potentially running parallel but it doesn't have to be that way with an holistic planning approach to public transport. Heworth, in my opinion, gets a bit too congested as it is more urban than Follingsby. However, a multi-storey car park could be a step in the right direction if the space is there to construct it.