(27 Oct 2022, 10:30 am)Rob44 wrote If i was using a bus for any of these items i would either go to the metro Centre or Newcastle. If i was using the car i'd go there or metro centre due to free parking.
As for Sainsburys are you suggesting doing your weekly shop and having to hump 4, 6 or 8 bags from the entrance to the bus stop for starters, then have nowhere to put it when you get on? If your only going to Sainsbury for milk and bread fair enough but surely then you'd just go local and pay the premium to the local shop keeper rather thanGNE?
I just think increasing buses to the likes of the " centre" ofteam valley wouldn't make more people go there. If it would surely the landlord of the valley would maybe incentivize more buses to be re-routed there? Its a car based retail park, just like many others and it hasn't got anything there that you cant get in gateshead, newcastle or metro centre which all have better bus connections and more choice of shop when you get there
But doesn't it depend on people's circumstances?
Someone on Lobley Hill might be able to pop to the Metrocentre, Gateshead or Newcastle or even their local shop - but Sainsburys, Team Valley or their office/workplace, is literally at the bottom of the street.
When I last worked on the Valley, I had a colleague who lived on Saltwell Road.
It was two buses and a walk, or a walk (they didn't drive).
The time I worked on the Valley prior to that (different employer), a colleague lived on the Racecourse Estate and needed to be at the far end of Kingsway.
They're literally the other side of the railway line to the workplace.
Despite the proximity, it is almost impossible to get to the majority of the Valley unless you take a hike or change bus.
Or drive, clog up roads and delay buses etc.