(13 Apr 2022, 4:50 pm)Storx wrote Yeah I know what you mean. I know this is never going to happen for obvious reasons but imo the best service to serve Hadrian Park would be the 22. Every 10 minutes is overkill to Cobalt so you could split them 20 / 20. One to Cobalt, one to Hadrian Park.That seems a very sensible and logical idea to be fair like. Not sure about extending the 22 to Cramlington but reasoning behind it I suppose.
It then means you could possibly up the 309/310 back upto every 15 minutes both via High Farm and Battle Hill with the 306/308 both going via Station Road and the Coast Road
Would mean most the communities have a nice clean 7.5 minute service to all areas.
For the GNE ones though I'd probably do
309 - Every 15 minutes to Whitley Bay, every 30 minutes to Blyth
310 - Every 15 minutes to Silverlink, every 30 minutes via current route, every 30 minutes via 19 route until the tip then head through meadowell and rejoin the current route until North Shields every 15 minutes or so.
311 - Withdrawn
41 - Dropped to every 20 minutes all via Wiltshire Drive
SNE
22 - Every 20 minutes to Northumberland Park, 1 extended to Cramlington via 19 route hourly.
23 - Every 20 minutes to Hadrian Park
Nexus
19 - Withdrawn
Obviously it means working together though which won't even happen. Would sort most the Coast Road mess as they'd have their own corridors rather than the mismatch currently.
As for the Coast Road as you've mentioned before, taking the 306 out of Battle Hill and having all services running every 20 minutes each (every 5 combined) seems the more sensible idea
306: xx:00
310: xx:05
308: xx:10
309: xx:15
As for the 23 and Hadrian Park, although it seems a longer journey on paper, lets not forget it stops right in the heart of Newcastle so really, the journey time wouldn't be too disimilar to GNE's 57 & 58 when they served Hadrian Park.