(16 Jun 2024, 9:05 pm)Malarkey wrote One of the things for me that I think need sorting as a priority and really should've been in place prior to the Tyne Bridge Works starting is a Park & Ride site at A19 Testo's Roundabout in order to reduce congestion/wait times coming in/out of Newcastle, looking at Google Maps it already has a small car park on the site used for the A19 Flyover Upgrades which could easily be expanded.

The Park & Ride Service would be operated jointly by the Independents Operators across the region at a regular frequency and I would also have the Go North East X10 & Stagecoach X24/X34 also serving it.

The service itself would be as follows:

PR1 - Testo's Roundabout Park & Ride - Central Station - Newgate Street - St Mary's Place - John Dobson Street - Testo's Roundabout Park & Ride

PR2 - Testo's Roundabout Park & Ride - Newcastle Quayside - Testo's Roundabout Park & Ride

Another I have had is for National Express, Megabus & Flixbus Services to serve Newcastle Airport in order to make it more accessible from elsewhere in the country, seems to work well for other Airports so why couldn't it here in the North East and in turn it would encourage economic growth and hopefully bring Airlines back to Newcastle to operate services across the world.

No-one will use a P&R there, there's already one at Heworth which has a Metro every 6 minutes which beats the traffic completely unlike the bus which sits in the same traffic anyway. P&R's are generally a complete waste of money unless they're connected to a metro or tram system or there's absolutely no parking at all for staff which isn't the case in Newcastle.

Same again with getting to Newcastle Airport, it's a regional airport unlike other airports, it'll never compete with the likes of Manchester, there's no where to fly to anyway pretty much unless you like a bucket and spade holiday.