(15 Jul 2023, 7:02 pm)Storx wrote To be fair the main side of the Great Park isn't too bad now the new road is open. The Stagecoach X47 could easily extend through and serve the other side and give links from Kingston Park etc.

Even if it meant splitting it into 2 and having one doing it one direction and the other the opposite. Imagine it being quicker than the Q3 aswell now that goes for a mystery tour around Jesmond. Obviously bus companies are as innovate as a type writer lately though so it won't happen.

I hadn't actually realised that had opened up now, would absolutely make sense for the X47 to be extended through to cover the west side of the estate.

Time wise, it would probably have to take around 5 mins to get from the estate to the first stop in Kingston Park to break even time wise with the Q3 - but obviously you're also introducing new connections with Kingston Park and Cowgate. That said, if you were to extend the Q3 to cover that half, it would probably also increase in time by a couple of minutes too, so I reckon if Stagecoach could do it in sub-10 minutes it would be about on par. 

The Jesmond addition to the Q3 is a huge bit of extra time really, Haymarket to the first stop in Great Park is bang on 30 minutes on a regular journey. As a comparison, you could be in the following places from Haymarket in 30 mins or less:

• Cramlington - Dudley Lane Shops (27 mins on an X10/11, 29 mins on an X9).
  
• Morpeth - all stops up until Sun Inn (30 mins or less on X14/5/8, even Morpeth Bus Station is only 32 minutes). 
  
• Bedlington - Red Lion (30 mins on an X22)
  
• Dinnington - Front Street (29 mins on 44/45)