(05 Apr 2024, 7:10 pm)Storx wrote Personally I'd always love to see a resurrected 325/326 but adapted to serve what's wanted now rather than what was wanted in 1980, maybe something like https://www.google.com/maps/dir/55.01385...?entry=ttu
There's so many places on the route ie:
Whitley Bay
Cullercoats
Tynemouth
Tynemouth Longsands
North Shields
North Shields Fish Quay
North Shields Ferry
Monkseaton
Cobalt
Silverlink
ALDI North Shields
Tesco Norham Road
Morrisons Preston Grange
LIDL Rake Lane
Boundary Mill (short walk)
Coast Road Retail Park
It's arguably all the destinations where people local would actually need to be and want to go east of the A19. It would also utilise the 306 resource between Tynemouth and Whitley Bay. It's just a completely new route so would just have to be an addition. With good marketing and a reasonable frequency, I could see it being quite popular. Especially the Ferry to Whitley Bay section in the Summer.
I would link this to be a circular say from cobalt straight down to silverlink (bus stop behind cinema then mcd bus stop then at silverlink roundabout up and down coast road for Smiths then back up stop at the stop at holy cross then down the next ramp on coast road under bridge and right and loop back up along battlehill drive past the college and shops and either right at Smyths then left back on the coast road to silverlink (loop round Hadrian Park is optional)