(31 Dec 2024, 9:47 am)Storx wrote If the Q3 doesn't go through Jesmond then the route should be scrapped entirely North of Newcastle it's simply not needed. The money wasted subsidising it should be used to to prop up the X46 and 49 instead preferably ran by Arriva in an ideal world and part of the 43/44/45 corridor. Both every 30 minutes? Giving 12 buses an hour on the Great North Road. The corridor deserves the capacity imo and there's way too many buses just sitting along there doing the same thing, and as mentioned above, which people avoid anyway as they're confusing.

The Q3 should be scrapped at the Eastern side aswell with the 18 doing that aswell, as I've said before the pub should not be subsidising 5 buses an hour from Walker to St Peters when there's already the commercial 12 in the area aswell.

If you want to keep the Q3 going somewhere then merge it with the 355 and up that to every 20 minutes. It probably deserves the capacity anyway, it's always well loaded whenever I see it which can't be said about the 352/354 at the Newcastle side.