(06 Apr 2024, 8:43 pm)Storx wrote Interesting idea that and I agree with the Tyne Met link, maybe could do something like this https://www.google.com/maps/dir/55.01073...?entry=ttu instead though.
Would give better links to Tyne Trading Estate which is horrific to get to currently and still serve the college aswell. You'd also give a bus to the bottom end of Norham Road which is currently busless especially with the new housing developments. Think the full loop would be a bit annoying if you were going say from North Cobalt to Verne Road etc. and Battle Hill has more than enough buses tbh.
See Battlehill Drive I would argue there is not enough to obscure destinations. It's a high frequency route.
Overtime create Battlehill shops area as a connector for multiple services it also means if you need to wait 15 min during the day a quick pop to greggs tesco Dickson lidl etc it's a quick connector as oppose to places like Willington Square or myshanghi or chilli Road and coast road with those underpassess. Even rake lane hospital tbh if you need to wait 30min for a bus there is nothing there least you can wonder round lidl for 20mins at battlehill.
I think there is also a lost opportunity and being brutally honest I wouldn't know how to get to cramlington hospital by bus!
A lot of North Tyneside can get to Rake Lane but that is a feeder hospital to Cramlington battlehill has links to freeman (although I would send that 653 to Hadrian Park to serve all of battlehill to freeman and give links to lidl for shopping for that estate it drives round.
In London the transport infrastructure is clever. It often has terminuses at supermarkets or name drops them as a specific location so customers immediately recognize I know where that is.
It's marketing that needs to be turned on its head so brand names are easily recognizable