(01 Aug 2022, 2:48 pm)Storx wrote Ha we all have a dark secret

Seriously though taking away the football, travelling across the Tyne in general is just a problem. There's about 100 buses, probably more? curious now, across the 4 bridges in the centre of Newcastle then there's 3 to the West (6, 7, 84A?) and 2 to the East (11). I'm not counting the 12 as it doesn't go anywhere bar straight into town and a ferry at a bottom of a bank with dodgy connections and at the wrong end of the town for the buses

It's been a massive problem up for here for ages and it's no wonder there's 100k or so cars (I believe is the number) travelling on the A1/A685 to the West and 40k or so to the East on the A19. Not to mention the cheap bastards who will use the Tyne Bridge to avoid the tolls, ignoring the fact they're paying more in petrol. 

Lot of people there and tbh there's no alternative really without a diversion via Newcastle which if your journey is Throckley to the Metro Centre is a long one (ignoring changing buses in random places) or Cobalt to Hebburn.

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Yeah there is, but it's not exactly any use. Might aswell just park in Southwick / Roker instead and walk and save the bus journey which a lot of people do. It's at the wrong end of the traffic on Wessington Way so you get stuck either way with an additional inconvenience in waiting for a bus. Believe it was a condition of the Stadium of Light so it's there because it has to be there rather than to save traffic.

Genuinely amazes me that operators ignore all of those potential passengers in cars and insist on following each other in to and out of the town in some sort of multi-coloured conga.

But here lies the problem and it goes back to what I was saying earlier. 
Something needs to be done, which is radically different to what has gone on since the days of the horse drawn tram.
And obviously the bonus is ensuring the end to those puzzled and bewildered looks on the commercial teams, who spend their lives wondering why they see constant traffic jams and falling loads.
A puzzled and bewildered commercial team no more! Just a successful one!