(07 May 2024, 2:40 pm)Storx wrote See for me the bigger problem is going the opposite way. For someone like me if I say needed to go to Ouston and it terminated at Gateshead, I'd have to get a bus to Newcastle, hop on a Metro for 3 stops and hope to god the first bus isn't late otherwise I'm stuck in Gateshead for potentially 25 minutes with nothing to do. It's impossible to time and it turns frustrating.

I'm all for integration but that's just poor integration. If I was going to Concord say and I decided to get a bus to a Metro, travel all the way through to Heworth then had to wait there it would be kind of frustrating but the journey time is short on the last bus so that's fine, the alternative would be sitting on the 56 going around the world and even with the wait the timings would be similar. 

imo. places like Ouston and Kibblesworth shouldn't have a bus going anywhere near Newcastle and Gateshead and should be interchanging to a train at somewhere like Birtley if they want to go to Newcastle, instead we literally have a railway that flies straight through without a stop which they both cross. I know someone will say 'the station would be in the middle of nowhere' but that's why buses connect you to it. Like personally if I lived on the 25 route, I'd much much rather have a bus every 15 minutes to a 20 minute train than an hourly bus which only runs to 6pm or so anyway. Start connecting the likes of the 82 to it and people from Rickleton might start using it and that might suddenly become a nice little corridor.

If you built near it Station Lane it's ideal for regeneration of that area aswell as it's just wasteland currently. Instead we'll just build houses in the middle of nowhere with no public transport as usual.

For every positive there's a negative and vice versa. On you trip to Ouston the bus bringing you into town could be made late from the 7 21'2 in a row trying to get around st mary's place and into eldon square.  You could get mugged by the beggers and there dogs in Haymarket bus station on your walk to Eldon Square.  The bus to ouston could be late due to all the arrive 308's around St marys place waiting to get into the haymarket.  OR you could get a bus from yours to Regent centre and metro to Gateshead and aviod Gossy high street or head the other way out of haymarket, pint in junction then nip on train to gateshead. I'm sure delays on north bound GNE buses most tof the time now is from LEAVING gateshead and getting to wherever they are going in Newcastle so chance are ( you would hope) that you bus to ouston from gateshead would be more reliable.

This ofcourse would free up more buses/drivers so cancelations would be fewer too?

As for the second last paragraph i'd be happy with a bus to the nearest station then jumping onto metro or bus. Thats what i do when I stay at the penthouse or when i stay next to kibby now anyway