(06 Jan 2023, 11:10 pm)stagecoachbusdepot wrote I don't see the point in consulting on this kind of stuff.  If there is an average of one passenger per trip, and multiple alternatives within 300m, it's a shocking waste of public money to be funding it in the first place.

Personally I blame the shocking advertising for them, the 51 in particular might not be busy but the bus service in Whitley Bay / Monkseaton is absolutely disgusting - no-one will use an hourly service so paying for hourly services is a waste of time.

Yet all the while there's 7 buses an hour tootling along via Hillheads picking no-one up. Bus planning at it's finest.

Marden Estate is exactly the same, but it's okay because some bus measures and cycle lanes by Corner House will fix everything since everyone can cycle 8 mile each way every day - yet again more wasting money or use the new air bus that's been brought in.

imo Arriva and Nexus need to sit down and resurrect the old 335 but going via Killingworth on the 54 route instead every 30 minutes. So it's the 51 between Whitley and Northumberland Park then the 54 from there to Newcastle additionally serving the part of the K1 via West Moor which also doesn't have a service. Both services are a shambles now. Who runs it who cares tbh.