(18 May 2023, 9:13 am)Rob44 wrote all that's well and good but i got dogs abuse on here for suggesting GNE should curtail buses at Gates M and punter either use metro or have a single bust every 10 minute to Newcastle for the Conssesonay bus passes. Also I wouldn't fancy jumping on the 44 at the one stop in hazlerigg. just sit down then have to get up, get off and stand a bus stop akin to all the forces of nature waiting for the " 10 minute frequency service" to arrive, know that in reality the gap will be longer, 3 will turn up at once and at peak time they probably all be full ( see GNE21).
The thing is they wouldn't be full though as they wouldn't go any further than Great Park where you'd have a proper interchange. That would be a tram/metro btw through Gosforth. One core bus route would never work.
It happens pretty much everywhere, even in London.
Just to pick Ealing Broadway, https://content.tfl.gov.uk/bus-route-map...290423.pdf
You can see it working there with all the 'E' services which are the 'Ealing Broadway' Local Services. Most of them are every 10 minutes or so aswell using Double Deckers and Ealing Broadway is one of hell bloody busy Tube Station.
It'll freak people out up here as they're not used to it but long term it's much much better than now. Not to mention you'd actually have less vehicles / drivers so less cancellations and since they stay away from the traffic less delays.
Washington Galleries to Newcastle via Concord and Heworth is the one which should be built though and would work imo, it pretty much does it anyway bar it connects to the X1 instead which is undesirable. Then you can start having debates about scrapping the likes of the 25 and having a more frequent bus to Washington Galleries from Barley Mow etc and connecting to the new tram/train. I'd prefer that personally if I lived there as an hourly bus service is useless.