(14 Aug 2022, 10:59 pm)streetdeckfan wrote Here's a potentially unpopular opinion, no service needs a frequency higher than 30 minutes.Doesn't a higher frequency really make people more want to use the bus?
The only reasons to have a higher frequency is to increase capacity, or if it's providing a direct link between two interchanges ie. between Metrocentre and Gateshead or Newcastle.
IMO, a single decker operation with a frequency higher than 30 minutes is a waste, it should be upgraded to a decker before they increase the frequency. Obviously in cases like the 49 where there's a low bridge on the route I can make exceptions. But other than that, I can't see any valid reason.
e.g my friend uses the 20, well used to however when it went to every 15 mins they just stopped and starting getting the car. I feel like every 12-20 mins is what most buses should run at, also with double deckers on evenings when buses are at less capacity they will waste more money on double deckers with the fuel.
I don't know I just feel like less often a bus is the more that people wouldn’t want to wait for it, I know I would be the same.
(14 Aug 2022, 10:32 pm)Storx wrote He's only moaning as he wants a 30 minute service to his house in Hadrian Park. I'd be glad for an hourly service when there's plenty of places similar to Hadrian Park which are awkward loops which aren't exactly picking up hundreds of passengers like Eighton Banks which have no service at all.Maybe, however he does have a point, nobody wants to wait 50 mins in the dark especially coming to Winter GNE could be a bit better at timings.
The rest is irrational ie moving the service back 30 minutes, people would just have to wait 50 minutes to go to Newcastle instead... Not that I can imagine there's exactly many (if any) of people going to Seaton Sluice and Blyth, the 54 covering to Whitley at 29 mins past.