(01 Aug 2022, 11:53 am)Storx wrote See personally I think they should make a workers network and interwork them with the local network to run peak services and actually advertise it rather than it being stupid numbers like 939.Either or. Just something which is different to what we have now. That clearly doesn't work.
Like for Team Valley
21 Every 15 Minutes All Day, 30 Mins to Durham
Morning Peak Only (Every 15 Minutes)
W91 - Newcastle - Team Valley Direct (First buses from Percy Main area maybe, possible 311 replacement?)
-- Run Empty --
21 - The Angel - Newcastle
(Repeat)
-- Do something else, maybe local services to Team Valley Retail World or add capacity to services like the 41/41A/311 etc --
Evening Peak Only (Every 15 Minutes)
21 - Newcastle - The Angel
-- Run Empty --
W91 - Team Valley - Newcastle Direct (Last runs returning to same place as above, possible 311 replacement?)
(Repeat)
It means there's a quick link to Team Valley and the core of the 21 get's a journey every 7.5 minutes when its needed rather than having buses running around empty all day.
Most the main employment sites are oddly quite close to core routes which are busy in one direction at peaks
Doxford Park (2/39/39A)
Cobalt (309/310/311)
Team Valley (21)
Follingsby (58)
or have local services around which don't really need that much morning capacity in particular away from the big city they serve which they could easily drop onto to give pensioners a better service.
Doxford Park (39B/82/84/85)
Cobalt (335/342/W1/W2)
Team Valley (25/28/29/67/69)
Follingsby (-)
Seems less confusing to me than variants.
I saw MG enter in to a conversation recently on twitter with someone and the question about buses to Team Valley was brought up.
It may have been accidental or deliberate, but there was no reply at all from him when the poster responded to a MG question and told MG they were travelling between Portmeads and Team Valley.
Sport, leisure, employment - it's as though there's just no ability within the minds of these operators that there's more to it, than just having a stream of services going to and from city or town centres.