(03 Aug 2023, 7:25 am)R852 PRG wrote If you're suggesting I have some sort of agenda in favour of Go North East, you're mistaken. I could sit and absolutely tear them to pieces if I so desired. On this matter, however, I think they should be commended.
Seemingly nobody can identify their strategy of network reconstruction in North Tyneside.
As for "leaving half of Birtley without a bus service", don't talk wet. It's not as if, when the 82 was tendered out, those areas went without a bus service. Besides, no residential address in Birtley was ever more than a five minute walk from a stop served by the 21.
A quick check on Google maps will blow that claim out of the water.
Just picked Laxford (located roughly halfway between where the 21 and 82 stop) to York Road.
Good luck trying to do that in 5mins.
There are many other examples, particularly on the hilly eastern side of Birtley well over 5mins from the 21.