Matchday traffic from the South of the Tyne into Newcastle has been a problem since before Covid and shortages.

Newcastle remains a destination so aside the 50k you've got heading in you've got

- a horrendous road layout in Gateshead that doesn't seem to speed anything up. Without fail the lights change to red at the ped-x-ing on the Tyne Bridge as the buses turn onto it.
- Low Fell which from Chowdene Junction to the Cannon is a traffic jam and the bus priority at the Cannon causes more problems than it solves.
- Traffic being funnelled through Low Fell - again due to poor road planning and now the A1 roadworks.
- Birtley's 37,000 set of traffic lights which can easily add 5-10 minutes onto running.

Buses then run so far behind they are loaded to the brim by the time they get to Allerdene going north and Wellington St (change here for Micropub) going South and you've no hope of boarding any more.

Ideally you'd have some short 21s to to run Newcastle-Harlow Green or even Newcastle-Angel relieving the pressure on the corridor and allowing more give when buses heading further South inevitabley snarl up

On a plus there's no longer a restriction on the Magpie Mover post game - it's now valid until last bus