(07 Jan 2025, 9:21 am)Storx wrote Probably doesn't help that there's 3 operators in the area either (Stagecoach - partially, GoNorthEast and Arriva). There's just not enough going around for all 3, with the Metro added on top which the vast majority of people use if they live next to it.

The towns, especially North Shields are all ghost towns aswell, yet they're obsessed with sending all the buses there which doesn't help either mind. Yet there's a cinema, multiple restaurants and all your shopping needs at Silverlink and the place is pretty much unserved without going under busy and unpleasant dual carriageways.

The whole area badly needs redone instead of having the same routes as 30 year ago, give or take, when places like Cobalt were fields imo and they need to work with the Metro, rather than against it aswell utilising the three interchanges (Wallsend / North Shields and Northumberland Park)

And the Royal Quays, I don't get how the 19 has hung on for so long ever since they re routed it to go direct along Howdon Road missing out the Royal Quays entirely, yeah granted it has the 317 (and the 9 if you want to include it), but they can't say the 19 is a duplicate of the 317, cus it simply just isn't