(08 Mar 2024, 10:04 am)Storx wrote Aye no arguments, it's a bit of a mess. The Q3 is a bit of a mess of a route, the thing is just subsidised all over the place and it's just a weak duplication through Gosforth really.
I know you quoted about the Great Park wanting a faster bus but the Great Park isn't big enough to warrant a 3 BPH service for itself.
It's the sort of route that if the bus companies actually have this 'partnership' they should work together and kill a few other stones around, the X46 being part of it somehow for example.
imo the Great Park should be covered by the X47 (Stagecoach), with something coming from the Gosforth direction to cover than link (35?/X46?) with the Q3 curtailed in Newcastle but under the current system that won't happen and GNE, GCT and SNE will happily take tax payers money on the 35/X46 and Q3.
It will certainly be interesting to see what happens next. It cannot be sustainable for both the Q3 and 35 to operate via Jesmond, a well off area, with 5 buses and hour and a Metro, when my Mums' estate, one of the most deprived areas of Newcastle, has two buses per hour. Its a bit sickening.