(02 Jan 2024, 7:50 am)Ianthegoon wrote On the Tyne Bridge vs Tyne Tunnel thing, on my regular journey to the Heaton area I don't think there's much difference timewise. But the Tunnel charges a toll, so it'll always be in via the Felling bypass and across the Tyne Bridge for me. Make the Tunnel free, and I'd be far more likely to use it.
Or, they could make public transport viable and you (and all of the others queueing up on the Felling Bypass) may be encouraged to use that instead.
Yet those in their ivory towers seem to think that all of the traffic crossing the river, is going to or from the City Centre OR think passengers are happy to change buses there*
Let's be honest, they're not and they aren't.
*even more evident with this ridiculous Tyne Bridge/Metrocentre P&R scheme.