(30 Jan 2025, 7:40 pm)WestDurhamSwift wrote I looked into Byker Bypass as a school study, and interestingly it was built with the propasal that shields road would be 

A. Pedestrianised 
or 
B. Bus only 

Neither of which happened.

I'm surprised they haven't tbh. It would be one of the easiest things to do and would massively boost buses. The road is a slog at the best of times. I used to live at Heaton and you'd be happy once you hit Morrison's as you knew the 62/63 would be pretty much non stop from there and they're upgrading that bit..?

Chillingham Road is desperate for stuff especially Northbound from the Metro bridge upto the lights, would make a massive different for the 62/63 and it's not really hard to do either as the road there is three lanes with a hatched centre anyway for most of it.

Obviously ideally you'd have more bus lanes further North but that would be more complex, but it's easily doable especially Southbound which is also a slog if you removed the parking.