I think if I was applying for BSIP, I'd start with something simple rather than going the wholescale network changes as some suggest in this thread.

So, for starters, I would try and do something with the 67/69, a largely, by all accounts, unprofitable service linking together a string of communities across the width and breadth of Gateshead. A vital link, for some, but commercially unviable without funding from Nexus. In the last tranche of changes in July, the Q.E. to Wardley section was to be withdrawn with the service curtailed at the Q.E. with the 57 picking up the slack in Wardley to provide the lost link. Presuming the 57 performs the same function as intended in those changes, I'd divert the 67/69 away from Wardley completely, instead from Meresyde diverting down Lingley Lane and into Follingsby Park to terminate at Amazon. This would provide a one-bus link (to combat a prevailing trend in another thread suggesting workers don't want to spend time in bus stations waiting to connect to other services) between Amazon/Follingsby Park to communities across Gateshead, without the need of travelling to Heworth Metro first.