(10 Sep 2023, 6:20 pm)Storx wrote Aye can't disagree tbh. The idea behind that 19 was to give East Cramlington a bus service as there's nothing along there currently and give Seghill a Metro link all night.
Must admit I don't know about the 317 like just seems overkill to be subsidising it so much, same with the 1 every 30 minutes tbh.
Yes, it would make sense to have a 19 running from Northumberland Park to Cramlington on an evening as opposed to North Shields to Northumberland Park where it carries mostly fresh air from what I've seen.
The evening journeys on the 1 that are subsidised are only hourly (it's just the 21:58, 22:58, 23:58 departures from Newcastle, and the 20:12, 21:12, 22:12, and 23:12 journeys from Whitley Bay) - not sure if the Newcastle to Metrocentre section is subsidised but that's only hourly too.