(06 Apr 2024, 9:44 pm)DaveFromUpNorth wrote 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
I totally agree with you, if you look at the Galleries, hardly anything serves sainsburys anymore. The same could be said for Team Valley Sainsburys and maybe even Dragon Lane Tesco.