(02 Aug 2024, 7:44 pm)ne14ne1 wrote Not sure who you’re upset at here.
The investments you’ve mentioned are surely from at least three different organisations.
And if you’re going to throw in random topic such as grass cutting, how about the major investment in the Outer West’s brand new pool, gym, sports hall, community space and library.
Benwell & Elswick have had a major new cycleway in the last few years, which is due to be extended further.
Does Heaton have an equivalent of Byker pool/gym or Walker Activity Dome?
Anyway, presumably many of the investments you’ve listed for Gosforth and Heaton have been a result of them being popular densely populated areas just outside of the city centre, with busy high streets, numerous schools, several large employment sites, busy public & private transport corridors, and as a result they see their fair share of congestion, air quality and traffic related safety issues which all need to be migrated.
What new outer pool, you mean the one that's pretty much been delayed indefinitely?
There's plenty other corridors in the North East that deserve this investment, West Road, Byker High Street and god to sake mention it, the Coast Road but not a penny has been spent on any of them, all with the same pollution issues and also serious congestion on 3 of them. There's no need for every route in Gosforth getting money.
This BSIP money should be improving bus services in areas with a poor bus service, I'm sorry but a 10 minute service is not a poor service by any stretch of the imagination and a bus service being 7.5 or 10 minute won't change someone using it, they're near identical. This is literally the 56 again but on steroids. The 71/72/87 being a prime example which are horrible infrequent (hourly) on the extemes, this is unacceptable in an urban area. The 6/7 two other services, also hourly on it's unique sections, also completely unusable.
It's not a new thing Gosforth getting money spent on it either.
The quicker the North East gets some adults in to run the transport while the councillors go splashing tax payers money down the drain, the better. Credit where credit due to Northumberland as they're the only area which has spent their BSIP money on creating new links and improving services in areas which genuinely have a poor service.