(18 Aug 2024, 12:10 pm)PH - BQA wrote Total storm in a teacup stuff. 

The X47 is quicker and more frequent (during both the day and the evening!), and ultimately the majority of people using the Q3 from Great Park do use it to get to Newcastle - not Gosforth High Street. The 49 covers Gosforth High Street, just not on Sundays.

I notice they're quoting people who are 77 and 78 years of age, people who do not pay for their bus travel and likely have nothing better to do than complain about service changes which are significantly better for the vast majority of working/school aged people.

To be fair if all these people moaning about the buses we're actually using the buses then they wouldn't need funding and GNE would be running it commercially. 

It seems like one of these things where someone uses the bus once a month is now wondering why the bus can't run anymore. The Q3 is not busy in Great Park, infact I'd go as far and say most buses are pretty much dead. 

I'm also not sure why people need to go to Gosforth either, there's now links being provided to Kingston Park instead and there's a hell of a lot more there for shopping needs.

I know where I'd rather have the connection and the Metro / Bus connection from there is neglible depending where people get on.