(18 Aug 2024, 9:34 pm)Malarkey wrote Newcastle BSIP Improvements Ideas

• Go North East Services 352/354/355 Withdrawn as routes duplicated by Stagecoach's 37/38 & 62/63 and Arriva X7/X8, Stagecoach X63 extended from Killingworth to Whitley Bay replacing the 354, Service X63 would remain operated by Stagecoach.
  
• Stagecoach North East Services X24/X34 have an Evening & Sunday timetable introduced, both services would operate Hourly.
  
• Arriva North East Service 47 & Go North East Service "H" merged together to form one route with a frequency of Every 20 Minutes connecting Newcastle General, RVI & Freeman Hospital, service would no longer be NHS Staff Only and the public would be allowed to use the service also by showing proof of Hospital Appointment for free, Service would be Re-Tendered.
  
• Additional Outbound & Return Journey's on Peter Hogg's X74 leaving Jedburgh at 12:13 and Newcastle at 15:30.
  
• Go North East Service 684 and Stagecoach Service X82 merged together to provide a Service 30 Minutes from Newcastle to Hexham Monday to Saturday, Go North East Service 684 Withdrawn, Stagecoach 685 still operates Sunday shorts as it does now, Service would be Re-Tendered. 
  
• Go North East Service 1 Whitley Bay - Newcastle merged with Stagecoach North East Service 22, Existing Service 22 would continue to operate Throckley - Newcastle - Wallsend - Cobalt Every 20 Minutes, Go North East Service 1 would be re-numbered 23 and operate Every 20 Minutes to Throckley - Newcastle - Wallsend - Whitley Bay, operation would pass to Stagecoach North East. 
  
• Go North East Service 1 MetroCentre - Gateshead - Newcastle would merge with Go North East Service 307 maintaining existing frequencies of both Services.
  
• Stagecoach North East 32/32A extended from Walkergate via Wallsend and merged with Go North East Service 41/41A to Hadrian Park providing improved Cross-City-Connections accross North Tyneside, alternatively Stagecoach Service 40 would merge with Go North East 41/41A, operation would pass to Stagecoach North East.
  
• Go North East Drivers made available from above changes would transfer depots to support frequency increases to Go North East Services that were decreased during Covid-19 and have not returned back to them and remain operating at an unsustainable and unreliable "Minimum Service Level", would also have option to transfer to Stagecoach due changes of services at Percy Main Depot. 
  

Personally don't agree with some of these, especially the X63

On those I'd say:
352: Withdrawn
353: North Shields to Killingworth only, Every 30 Minutes
354: Newcastle to Killingworth only
355: Replaced by 57
22: Throckley to Cobalt, Every 15 Minutes
23: Throckley to Whitley Bay, Every 15 Minutes
37: Cramlington to Denton Burn, Every 20 Minutes
38: Freeman Hospital to Denton Burn, Every 20 Minutes
38: Extensions to Forest Hall, withdrawn
57: Forest Hall - Newcastle - Wardley, Every 20 Minutes
96: Newcastle to Metrocentre, Every 20 Minutes
97: Newcastle to Whickham, Every 20 Minutes

22/23: Every 7.5 Minutes Combined - let's try and grow something 

Going more off a tangent

X7: Newcastle - Quorum - Killingworth - Backworth - Seghill - Seaton Delaval - New Hartley - Seaton Sluice - Blyth (Every 20 Minutes)
X8: Newcastle - Quorum - Burradon - Annitsford - High Pit - Cramlington (Every 20 Minutes)
X63: Withdrawn
41: Cramlington - Newsham Station - Sandringham Drive - South Beach - Amersham Road - Blyth (Every 30 Minutes, Ran with Midibuses)
42: Morpeth - Nedderton - Bedlington - Cramlington (Every 30 Minutes, interwork with above)
43: Curtailed at Cramlington

X7/X8: Every 10 Minutes, Newcastle to Quorum

X7 Route for clarification: https://www.google.com/maps/dir/55.02290...?entry=ttu

These are assuming franchising (for obvious reasons).

Mind the X7/X8/41/42/X63 changes probably wouldn't be the end of the world regardless and could be a way to save the routes if the train did cause problems even if Stagecoach ended up running the X7/X8