(17 Oct 2024, 3:13 pm)Storx wrote Not sure it would though like if you done the X39 doing this route including looping behind the cinema off peak only:
You've created a new link to Silverlink Retail Park and the cinema without having to walk around busy roundabouts. You just have to look at where like Arnison or Teesside Park and you'd pick a few people up. Right now it's a good 10 minute walk to the cinema.
There's absolutely nothing at the purple stops really where people want to be to create traffic. Remember these will have a quiet bus at this point since all the Blyth <> Whitley Bay traffic will be on the X39. Not to mention they'd gain a clean 10 minute service, unlike now where it's 8/12.
Not to mention if you done it the other way round the 309 would become completely pointless - it pretty much is anyway but the time difference would be substantial enough that there's no reason, bar going to Cobalt for anyone from New York to Blyth to use it at all. Least the 308 corridor has some traffic to make sense for both to actually exist.
I once used the bus to get to and from the silverlink Odeon. Never again. Back to car after that. Still got the scares of nearly getting knocked over at serveral round a bouts !