(15 Jan 2024, 8:45 am)L469 YVK wrote I get the logic of a more 'full time' express route to Coablt. But, would it make money off peak?
At least via Billy Mill, it would still have a chance picking up reasonable loads plus....throw a busy shopping / event day in or a matchday, could easily leave Willington Square with an almost full double decker.
Going via Cobalt would lose the Social, Domestic and Pleasure traffic. Something that makes the 308 money on top of commuters.
Think it would be popular, if it went via The Silverlink.
Means people from Whitley Bay etc could get off the bus stop which is right next to Silverlink, rather than having to cross busy roundabouts, under a nasty underpass and walk for ages, especially if heading to the cinema. You could even make the case for looping around Osprey Drive and serving the bus stop directly behind the cinema.
There's only really Lynn Road which you'd lose, the rest of is covered by the X39 anyway (let's call it that).