(05 Feb 2025, 3:08 pm)Storx wrote Aye not a bad idea, I just think there badly needs to be a 30 minute service between Killingworth and Wallsend. There might not be tons of demand but it's two major places where you can connect to other services and hourly is way too infrequent imo.Fair enough, then I'd say replace that section with another route. GNE could've easily reverted the Wiltshire Drive section of the 342 (when it used to be the 42/42A). I just don't personally agree with the pointless "A" services that only have a tiny difference, which GNE seems to love so much.
You can't send them all via Wiltshire Drive without a PVR increase which would never be sustainable. The place doesn't need 4 buses an hour to Wallsend either at the detriment for an extremely long service from Hadrian Park / Battle Hill.
For example, if we look at Stagecoach's "A" services in Newcastle, they make sense, and we don't have many.
32A does the exact same route as the 32 throughout, but loop sections are operated anti-clockwise rather than clockwise.
72A provides a twice a day peak service to Fenham Hall Drive rather than Cowgate.
X24A has the same concept as the 72A, but for Doxford International.
The only Stagecoach "A" service I don't agree with is the scholars 18A, but it's Nexus who route-numbered that so you can't blame Stagecoach for it.