(15 Feb 2024, 3:28 am)deanmachine wrote Honestly I still don't think night buses have been properly tried yet here. They're pretty slow burners as it's not something very transparent as few people see them running. I do the late 56s and I still get people shocked when I tell them that I'm finishing at 3am, despite doing them since they were reintroduced nearly 3 years ago. Yeah it's probably not enough to take a risk from a commercial perspective but that doesn't mean that it isn't something that should be tried, start off with connecting the metro network during the night and go from there imo. With the amount of taxis (well mostly Ubers) I have to wade through every night in Newcastle, there is surely a demand there to support a couple of buses.
Totally agreed, not to mention the 39/40 and 62/63 run every 15 minutes until 11pm or so then just stop dead. I don't believe for a second that there's a hidden time where people just suddenly think oh, 11pm - I will now not use the bus.
They need to be marketed properly though and arguably not be the same corridors as day buses in some areas, mainly where the Metro is as during the day it wouldn't make sense running a bus doing the yellow line North of Newcastle but at nights things change fast.
Will be they heaving, probably not, but if you want people dropping cars and you have night shifts as part of your job, you won't be using public transport at all until there's an option for all shifts.