(25 Jun 2024, 9:55 am)Coastliner700 wrote But it doesn’t warrant 3 empty double decker buses driving around! Maybe reduce it to hourly.
Dropping it to hourly would result in the buses sitting around doing nothing for 15 minutes with a PVR 2, it's 45 minutes end to end hence the PVR 3. Doesn't make sense that.
Personally I'd rather see the bus redone so you'd end up with something like:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Fosswa...?entry=ttu
Which consists of the 18 (Full Route), 342 (Killingworth to Wallsend) and Q3 (St Peter's to Wallsend)
They're all subsidised routes and would open lots of new opportunities in East Newcastle, with destinations where people want to be (who wants to go to Walker or Benton Square?)
The PVR would be similar to now, maybe one additional bus to serve the areas which are currently hourly (342) but this could be made off scrapping the 37 subsidy on an evening as it's not needed since this route does the Freeman links to Killingworth.