(17 Aug 2021, 6:23 pm)Andreos1 wrote Do those services take residents to the places they need to be?
I'm thinking work, pleasure and education and of my limited knowledge of up that way - I'd say, probably not.
Despite all those bus lanes heading down the Great North Road and in to the town, I reckon a big percentage will be heading off somewhere else that doesn't involve driving through Gosforth.
In fairness they'd take them to most of SE Northumberland, the X21/X22 doing Bedlington, Ashington with a change at Ashington anywhere North and the X9 doing Cramlington and Blyth which are the main shopping places locally and for entertainment with a change to pretty much everywhere North of the Tyne at the Regent Centre, Gosforth, Newcastle or Cramlington (if not everywhere, struggling where you couldn't tbh and that's not doing U routes either mostly quicker than driving with the bus to Regent Centre / Metro).
There's not realistically anywhere else they could have a bus service to that they'd want to go to.