The death of the high Street has a strong factor of bus companies creating cross service operations giving no purpose for passengers to get off and change

We used to have feeders to the metro like Heworth or Wallsend buses went to them and you were forced to use them to get to Newcastle or Gateshead quicker.

What we now have is Nexus Assets occupying bus interchanges and wasted space in terms of provisions for bus layovers and breaks when it's not necessary look at Heworth we could build a lidl on the arrival side and still effectively run a bus station

Infact a drive through could be added to increase footfall at Heworth to generate rental increase and passengers