(20 Sep 2021, 4:21 pm)ne14ne1 wrote Extract from the proposals for city centre traffic changes on the Newcastle City Council website, relating to buses:

Blackett Street, New Bridge Street West and Pilgrim Street would be closed to buses. This map details proposed changes to the bus stops.


Proposed changes to bus operations include:
Relocation of buses from Blackett Street, the northern section of Pilgrim Street and New Bridge Street West onto surrounding roads. This would effectively create a ‘bus loop’ around the core of the city centre. This central area would then be focused on people, with limited access for vehicles. The surrounding roads would then include:

• Grainger Street
  
• John Dobson Street
  
• Market Street
  
• Newgate Street
  
• Percy Street
  
• St Mary's Place
  

New and/or improved stops would be provided in the following locations:

• Grainger Street
  
• Grey Street (north)
  
• John Dobson Street
  
• Market Street
  
• Newgate Street
  

Shelters and seating would be provided as far as possible in new / improved stop locations.

LINK: City centre improvements | Newcastle City Council

Newcastle City Council have to make the bus routes bus only, hackney carriages only Grainger Street/Clayton Street/Westgate Road. Deliveries up to 10am. Stop all private cars/fake taxis. Thats the only way the streets could cope with the extra buses. They haven't the spine or the common sense to do so.