(16 Dec 2021, 3:50 pm)OrangeArrow49 wrote Are Stagecoach North East going to be cutting back any services?Hate to be blunt but none of those would work or go down well with customer
Suggestions for Newcastle and North Tyneside:
8 run along Springfield Road instead of Blakelaw Road in Blakelaw, with the Phoenix 808 running along Ponteland Road instead. Peter Hogg 131 diverted off Ponteland Road onto Springfield Road as it serves Central Station the same as the 8.
12 and 22 swap routes in Byker, run Wallsend 12 as 13 and extend it Fenham - West Denton
18 withdrawn. New GNE service perhaps, with some changes.
Scrap 32/32A and run 84/84A instead West Denton - Slatyford - Fenham - Newcastle - Benwell - Cowgate - Kenton.
62/63 curtailed in the city centre, with X62/X63 running South Gosforth - Killingworth. 62/63 Chapel House and North Walbottle to City Centre. Killingworth has too many buses!
74 taken on to compliment the 71/72 and 685.
Any ideas?
8-i dont see the point in it really,it only runs a few journeys a day,
12-you cant really swap it with the 22 at Byker as the 22 is a popular service to the Cobalt,and the 12 does that 1 way circuit in Wallsend,another thing for the 12 is why renumber it 13?,its been the 12 for years even when it used to run to Four Lane Ends in the days of PTE,you could also just extend the 12 to West Denton instead of the 13 you suggested
18-i kind of see your point with this one,but you've got Longbenton High School to think about,you cant exactly route the 63 down there as that struggles with time keeping at the best of times
22-as stated above,see the 12
32/32A-is needed as it replaced the 15/15A,so you'd be doing more harm than good with that one
62/63-the best thing to do with that is have a service that can take the pressure off,a 64 has been suggested a few times,and not sure why you think they have too many buses in Killingworth,Stagecoach only run 3 services,and you have to remember,the 62 does West Bailey and the 63 does East Bailey,theyre local stopping services that provide alot of vital links to people
74-Stagecoach used to run a 74,not sure if its the same 74 that GNE now run