(23 Nov 2022, 8:30 pm)Storx wrote The problem with that is you've removed the Great Park / Hollywood Avenue to Gosforth link which is one of the key bits, you might aswell just run a bus from Great Park / Hollywood Avenue to the Regent Centre only doing that with integrated Metro tickets as it's a slog around the world the rest of it and no-one will use it (or extend the 553 instead).

Also that route already exists partially with the 553 which is commercial (not funded by Nexus at least).  You'd be better just extending the 52, it would do the same purpose.

Not really they can get on/off on Church Road which is just off of Gosforth High Street and as for the 553 section it carries fresh air from what I have seen of it departing Regent Centre so integrating it into another service would make it more sustainable in the long term, only other alternative would be merging it into the Q3 at Wallsend and have a Q3/Q4 operating a Clockwise/Anti-Clockwise Loop.