(19 Dec 2022, 11:59 pm)Storx wrote Virtually everything wasted on stuff like in the past 15 years is the same:
Silverlink Bus Link
Northumberland Park Interchange
Centrelink
Most 'traffic improvements' are a waste of money aswell:
Sandy Lane
Four Lane Ends
South Gosforth
Gosforth Salter's Road / Church Road
Haymarket
Findus Roundabout
Askew Road
Kingston Park Road
They're all worse than they've ever been. North East Councils, in particular Newcastle, North Tyneside and Gateshead should be banned from traffic planning as they're clueless. Not to mention anything done by them takes 10x longer than it should, the latest being Sandy Lane Roundabout and the paving off the side streets on Northumberland Street.
It's bonkers that so much public money is thrown at this infrastructure, with seemingly no recourse for an operator shrugging their shoulders after however long and upping sticks when the money dries up or doesn't flow as well as they anticipated.
Time and time again we see it happen.