(07 Jan 2025, 12:19 pm)Aaron21 wrote Is it hell. I barely see anyone get on. It's werid. Royal Quays seems dead as hell now. Wet & Wild & Sports Dome have been demolished and other stuff is shut half the time. Even the bowling (i believe) is empty half the time. Royal Quays has died and isn't gonna get any better. I know the only reason the 9 serves it is cause the 10/11 did which was werid but they used it as a "useful link". 

Tbf Royal Quays has always been a werid one with very little buses even going near it. Like look at the services that go there now

317 Wallsend to Whitley Bay 
9 Sunderland to North Shields 
19 Cramlington to North Shields. 

It's just such a werid connection as they all serve North Shields so unless that's some connection I'm not sure why. But even when the 19 & 317 were changed back in 2022 causing the 317 to replace the 19 between Percy Main & North Shields Ferry so I'm not sure why Royal Quays has such a odd bus service

Even in the peak of Royal Quays and Wet and Wild, the public transport was shocking.
Can remember getting off the Metro in Percy Main to go to Wet and Wild (Meadowell still had its reputation and legacy) in the 90s and remember thinking it would be so much easier (and less risky) going by bus. 

The buses only seemed to get better, when the offering was worse.