(08 Aug 2022, 9:24 pm)Andreos1 wrote I agree, they probably are designed for the car user. But there's nothing to stop bus operators actually doing something about it and offering a bus service.
Not too dissimilar to what has been done at the Metrocentre - but just maybe from a wider range of destinations and not just have that conga of multicoloured buses travelling between Blaydon or Swalwell and Newcastle.

Dalton Park is the same. With a never ending conga of buses travelling back and forth from Sunderland.

Yet both places have seen investment in the road network in and around it. Why? Because car is king by natural selection or because car is king by default of a pretty naff bus network that makes it nigh on impossible to use.

We keep hearing that it's easier to create a business case for extending an existing route and under the current regime, I can see that X10 diversion in to Doxford being the 'fix'.
I think we all know it isn't the fix.
Just as the 4 isn't the ideal fix between Washington and Follingsby.

Personally I think the way it should be done is what Nottingham does and charge X per parking space over a certain number. Watch how interested the likes of Doxford Park, Cobalt, Amazon etc would be if they done that.

That money could be then spent on tendering bus routes to serve these places since the business parks are effectively paying for them anyway.

It would also benefit our town centre's since the out of town benefits are pretty much dead. Rent aside.