(05 Apr 2024, 6:51 pm)Storx wrote Silverlink is probably the biggest place but there's very very few buses which serve the place. From the East of the A19, other than the 19 which avoids everywhere there's arguably no bus service at all. I know some will say the 306/308 serve it but it's a long walk, crossing roundabouts, and is partially dark and very unpleasant. It's also a fair hike if you're heading to the restaurants, M&S or the cinema aswell.
Where most people don't want to go to is North Shields and also Blyth which for some reason has 6 buses an hour, and you can build as many expensive bus stations and force every bus to the place but that won't change anything as there's simply nothing there at all and the place is as unpleasant as it gets.
You can't even get a bus to the beach at Tynemouth, or Tynemouth at all really, from the vast majority of places, unless you live on the 306 route since everything terminates at Whitley Bay.
I was thinking about the 307 & 309 into a loop service like when they were the 75 & 76. But if people from Seaton Sluice and Blyth work at Cobalt then maybe not.
EDIT: Extend the 41/41A to Tynemouth but avoiding North Shields, maybe via High Flatworth, Silverlink, Cobalt, NT Hospital & Preston Grange. (Got a feeling I may have suggested this before)