(16 May 2022, 1:41 pm)Wybus wrote Can you explain what this actually means?The evolution of business parks and retail parks happened well before the pandemic. Yet what sort of public transport offer do we see to these areas? Either before the pandemic started or since?
Surely the changing needs, are that customers have less of a need to use the bus, rather than a specific new need?
What is this new obvious requirement that they are missing out on?
How easy is it to get from Birtley to Team Valley for work or retail? They're literally 1 or 2 junctions apart, but a trip out on public transport involves heading off in the wrong direction.
Ditto Washington.
How many buses bypass Newcastle Business Park or Quorum? But go straight in to the City Centre?
How easy is it to get from Howdon to Cobalt using the bus?
You've had people cut off from hospital appointments because the 25 needed to be sent via Harlow Green. Now those same people potentially don't have a bus service at all.
There's slip roads being improved at Seaton and Doxford International. They're one junction apart on the A19. But people couldn't get a bus prior to the pandemic and certainly can't now.
Millions spent improving traffic flows at Testos and Silverlink. Not because of bus lanes and the upsurge in demand for public transport. But for cars needing to get from A-B, without having to go via X, Y and Z.
These aren't new, obvious things. They're things which are needed and have been ignored for decades.