(11 Jun 2023, 2:24 pm)Rob44 wrote have to say you do sometime come up with some cracking idea ( except when you moan about nexus! LOL) and i agree it my not be the best place and team valley could be a better option but its all about money isnt it. Open this, increase that. Maybe the land at the valley was 5 million more to purchase?? also could be harder to get planning for it there.
And since you mentioned it no one wants to go to team valley on the bus.... its the same as silverlink, i dont use the buses that serve that very often but when i have no one gets on or off there.
actually scrap that just read this from chrnicle
https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/nor...l-10865311
For starters no extra buses??? bloody hell only nutters would leave there care there and try to get on a 21 or x12 at peak times! I also assumed it was on the north side of the A! not the south side so mybe you are right... grren elephant i think
Aye probably but then you could argue building something used is better than building a white elephant.
Aye don't disagree about the retail park, I was thinking more about the workers. Massive employment site if you could get 5% of people on the bus then it's a fair chunk of people. After posting it you've already technically got an express to Gateshead with the X71/X72.
It's funny because somewhere round Silverlink would be a good spot aswell. Just off the roundabout then you could run the X39 all day pretty much and give an express bus route to Cobalt which will always have traffic.
Similar somewhere around Quorum would be a good spot and you could use the X7/X8/X63 as the buses which all run non-stop if they improved Matthew Bank. Once you've got stuff like that then you can make the argument for punishing cars as there's a sensible alternative imo. I know some will say there's already Four Lane Ends but that involves driving the wrong direction and by the time you drive there you could be in Newcastle.