(27 Oct 2022, 2:29 pm)Andreos1 wrote 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.
TBH i do agreed with you but.... in my option ( and it mnens nowt) there is nothing on team valley ( retail bit) that you cant get to more easily on the bus to metrocentre / gateshead/ toon. Ok you could buy your new sofa at scs but you could alos do that at the metrocentre.
Work is different, although i would imagine anyone taking a job down there without the means of private transport would look at how they are going to get there. I'm sure a few on here can guess where live and work within the gateshead area from my previous posts. If i want to get to work its a 30minute trip via 2 buses ( if they connect and on a evening after 7pm its 1 hour 30. Its 12 minutes in the car. When i first started work i lived in Hazlerigg so had the commute of bus, metro bus or bus to town then bus again. I didn't care that it took me an hour as its the only way i could do it. Now, if i had to do it due to whatever reason It would kill me to use the bus .