(15 Aug 2022, 9:43 am)Adrian wrote I'd have agreed with you at one time, but I'd disagree now. At one time, somewhere like Old Durham Road in Gateshead had dozens of express services going down, between there and Newcastle, giving a combined frequency of every 10 minutes or so, but the individual services would be hourly/half hourly at best and branched off after the Galleries. So the main corridor was well-served and the fringe areas had a decent level of service.

If you do that now, then you end up bottlenecking the main corridor with people from Newcastle towards Wrekenton or Washington, leaving those further afield with a wait for the next one. As we've seen when there's been X1s missing or a Sunday timetable implemented on a Saturday.

Even services like the 4 in Washington worked similar. Core service between Heworth and Washington, but several variants covered and various terminus points after the Galleries.


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?