(07 Apr 2022, 10:45 am)Ambassador wrote There's only 2 real viable options.
Divert over Redheugh (which is already heavily congested) and a potential bus lane along Askew Road towards Gateshead.
Restore the Wellington Street bus link and send traffic over the Tyne Bridge.
Gateshead have made such an utter pigs ear of their road network that its probably going to take a total remodel. They are by far the most wasteful and incompetent of the local authorities - they love a good white elephant (Centrelink, the entire town centre, the bus gate and the Angel Park and Ride)
I was going to say the swing bridge, but you would need to have the roads on the toon side changed so you could right turn off the close if you wanted services to serve Central Station.