(09 Jul 2022, 7:08 am)ne14ne1 wrote …what about Tyne Bridge & Central Motorway East?

Admit those two are the outliers but that's more about the absolute shambles traffic management at the Gateshead side of the water which causes a bottleneck. 

Hard to fix those two without some serious alternative getting traffic out of the centre (lack of crossing to the East since the Tunnel costs anyway) or serious investment in public transport which lets be honest neither will happen. 

It's a hard one to fix when journeys like Team Valley to Walker take 50 minutes outside of peak times or driving I believe it's 15 minutes or so.

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(09 Jul 2022, 7:53 am)N1cholas wrote The biggest cause of congestion in newcastle is caused by private cars, remove them, you remove the congestion, air quality changed during lockdown when there was very few cars on the road and mainly only buses

There was less buses aswell, mostly running on Sunday timetables, which are tighter so there's less idle time and since there was less buses the old crap like the MAN's and older Enviro's were sitting in the depot SORN.