(27 Jul 2022, 10:23 pm)Ambassador wrote I meant I get historical sites or old pubs…I do and Amazon is clearly another ball park…however…..with this micro bus railway quarter nonsense.
Gateshead Council and the tourist board call it….The Bridges quarter
The Railway Quarter is in Newcastle around the Stephenson Workshop.
Heading into Newcastle the stop calls out askew road…the stop for most high frequency services nearest the Tyne Bridge, Hilton Hotel, the Sage, Gateshead Quays…basically anywhere that’s not a tiny pub with 4 tables in it as Railway Quarter and Microbus.
Why not the Central Bar which has been there since the 1800s or Station East similarly? It’s cronyism and it’s nothing to do with promoting enterprise. It’s clearly the MD and his commercial teams fancy of the month because they tweet dead nice things about buses. They haven’t updated service changes NSA but had time for this?
With GNE having a few financal issues, maybe a ligit deal was done.
It can't be a dodgy backhander, surely?