(31 Jan 2025, 9:29 pm)Storx wrote Convenience etc, just much nicer being in a car than a bus really, even if they went everywhere you wanted to go they're still worse so imo they need something that's a +1 and that's traffic priority for me.

I don't disagree about buses going to right place of course, but where traffic management is good, right in the centre of Newcastle, Sunderland etc the vast majority of people at that point are likely heading towards Newcastle / Sunderland or at least some point you'd interchange to continue the journey. Bus lanes in Hastings Hill in Sunderland or Harlow Green in Gateshead are utterly pointless though as they don't save time vs a car.

Inconveniencing the car user in the hope it encourages a modal shift/makes buses look better is a bizarre methodology. 

I'm not sure it has ever worked either.