(10 Sep 2023, 2:52 pm)streetdeckfan wrote Wonder if they could experiment with diverting some Newcastle bound services to the Metrocentre to open up more connections.
Perhaps one X21 an hour to Newcastle, one to Metrocentre, same with the Angel

Maybe an X22....

West Aukland, Bishop, Durham, A1, Heworth, Gateshead, Metro 

Surely this would take passengers away from the X66

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Turn Bottle Bank into a Bus Lane, over the swing bridge, Dean Street, Market Street (where 1 goes) turn that into a bus lane only, then take it up John Dobson street.

HOwever really due to added time to get into NEwcastle Like it says 10 mins on the timetable no one goes from Gateshead to Newcastle in 10 mins anytime from 8am-6pm, its just years of not adjusting timetables aswell, the X1 been expanded no PVR increase, cut wait times, same with the 56 in Sunderland how you need to go the winter gardens there was no time added to accomodate that for any services yes it might only add on say 3-4 mins, but when youre already 3 mins late and youve got a 5 mins layover in Newcastle, or a 2 min in Silksworth running 4 mins late