(21 Aug 2023, 10:26 pm)Storx wrote See personally, I'd just ignore the day time network and build a unique night service, similar to what London does taking in reflection the Metro isn't running.

I'd try and build something like the below instead:


With the green, purple and red lines all being hourly and the orange and pink lines being every 30 minutes with the the purple line splitting at Four Lane Ends (62/63) and the orange line being Lemington to Wallsend Only and Chapel House to Whitley Bay.

With proper marketing and Metro ticketing integration it would cover pretty much everywhere North of the Tyne. The 39/40 are every 15 minutes until 23:30pm then just die, it's definitely a corridor which has potential similar going through Heaton and Jesmond with the students. Jesmond an area which would be unsuccessful during the day but is a different ball game at night.

It would all need to be Nexus led though.

I think there was an idea for a night bus network if they'd gotten all the BSIP funding. I agree with the thought though, build a night bus network in place of roughly where the metro runs in North Tyneside, a 27 in South Tyneside, in addition to the 56 which already runs til 3am, as well as a couple of other services. The only problem is it would need proper funding as an operator isn't going to do it. The night 56 runs ok, but I can see why they withdrew for the last couple of hours between 3-5am because it was very quiet, doesn't mean nobody used it though.