(01 Jan 2025, 10:59 pm)busmanT wrote Go North East are not allowed to run buses in Great Park west of the A1 on Brunton Lane as it's private land.

However, when they were, they decided to annoy virtually the entire bus using population by insisting on sending the Q3 via Jesmond, even after the funding to do so was given to Stagecoach for the 35 to do it. 

From what I understand the main issue which Great Park residents had with the Q3 was the Jesmond section, and had that been removed then I doubt there would have been as much desire to push for a change in the bus service as there was through 2024 - which ultimately resulted in the X47 extension and the 49.

So, as I understand it, essentially the commercial masterminds at GNE gave away a fairly lucrative contract with the Great Park consortium because they wanted to run a service every 20 minutes for pensioners in Jesmond instead of prioritising the thousands of fare paying pensioners in a rapidly growing part of the city. It's a complete mystery why their network is a mess...