(03 Nov 2021, 10:32 am)Storx wrote It's a terrible idea. The council are naive to believe people will change to public transport. All that'll happen is people will go to the Metro Centre, Morpeth, Silverlink, Boldon, Cramlington and so on instead where there's still free parking. They seem to forget that cars don't have to go into Newcastle and people driving in are very unlikely drinking anyway so the options are all over the place. There's plenty of nice restaurants and entertainment ie. cinemas throughout the region without touching Newcastle (most which are cheaper anyway).

Assuming those people parking after 5 are actually leisure customers and not people working in the night time economy.
It almost defeats the point of a low waged worker, going to work. Bearing in mind a chunk of their hourly wage will be spent on parking now. 

Then there's this:
https://www.itv.com/news/tyne-tees/2021-...ce=NewsApp&utm_medium=SocialShare



'weak public transport costing economy'. Yet they're wanting to get rid of free parking


There's also a quote from a bloke who lives in Crawcrook and relies on lifts to get to work 7 miles down the road.