(10 Feb 2024, 11:14 am)MurdnunoC wrote I believe Storx is referring to roads which may act as a thoroughfare once the development is completed. Although plans sometimes change as time goes passes and unforseen (usually costly) challenges are discovered, it appears a road will exist between the Newbiggin Hall/Bank Foot interchange of the A696 that will run through the northern parts of the development (Upper and Middle Callerton) ending at the new roundabout at the top of North Wallbote Road. As the development is quite expansive (for the North East anyway), I imagine, at the very least, the 63 will find probably its way towards Bank Foot and, perhaps, onto either Kingston Park or the Airport.
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(10 Feb 2024, 11:19 am)Storx wrote Yeah there's 3 extensions planned on the plans:
- East Middle Callerton, which is the 63 one
- Lower Middle Callerton, which I assume will be the 62 or 71 or even both rather them turning around.
- Callerton loop all around, which could be multiple services. It can only really realistically be the 71/87 or X87/X88 on an extented route, but it'll leave one end of the Newbiggin Hall scrapped, if they do the second.
That's the diagram there, light blue dotted lines are new routes. The 63 being the little loop one to the right of the East Middle Callerton label.
Mind you could split the X87/X88 loop here and extend it with potentially just one bus (shouldn't take longer than 10 minutes) and should deal with it, quite the potential to gain a few passengers from it. Who knows though, it's the most sensible one though without seriously reducing links.
Ah okay that makes sense cheers, I didn't get a chance to look at the document so that's a useful summary.