(14 Aug 2022, 11:09 pm)Unber43 wrote Doesn't a higher frequency really make people more want to use the bus?
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.
No. I'd argue a higher frequency does not make more people want to use a bus. Why would it? If you're using your car to get to work then you're probably going to continue to use your car as it offers more utility than the bus. The only way that might change is if public transport was either cheap or free; then that might convince people to leave the car at home and accept a longer, less convenient journey.
In the example you've provided, you're friend, presumably a bus user, decided to use car because the frequency of their was reduced from, I'm guessing every ten minutes to every fifteen minutes? Now, I don't know the particulars of your friend, but why were they using the bus to begin with? Did they have already have a car? Have they recently passed their driving test? Ditching the bus because the frequency has been reduced from six (or five, if every twelve minutes) to four buses an hour seems a little bit whimsical as having a bus every fifteen minutes is still a decent frequency, in my opinion. Reading between the lines, there seems to be more which has influenced their decision to take the car instead.
(15 Aug 2022, 9:43 am)Adrian wrote So you want the last bus to Blyth to be at 20:49 from the town, and the same coming the other way? Who benefits from the service you're proposing to take away from Blyth?
Also, where do you propose to turn a bus around at Whitley Bay Cemetery?
Don't understand that either, plus, on another note, who are all these people who are still working in Cobalt at 11pm? The bulk of people who work there are away by 6pm, hence why it is a pinchpoint for traffic around that time.
On the second point, buses used to terminate at Whitley Bay Cemetery regularly. However, it is not really possible now as the road layout as changed and I'm not sure the caravan park (another old terminus) would want buses in and out of the site late at night.