(10 Feb 2025, 8:37 pm)Storx wrote It's not just the 306 since the 1 avoids it Newcastle bound aswell. It's a complete white elephant if you ask me. If bus routes aren't serving it as it's in the wrong place then it's a failure, especially the two busiest routes in the town.
It's just another we don't know how to get people into the town so let's build a bus station which North East councils are obsessed about. Bishop Auckland is another one going down the route when the reason people aren't going to the town is there's nothing there.
I would certainly agree with the above comments that there is nothing there. one Saturday before the the covid pandemic in 2019 I got the Metro to North Shields then the 11 (now 317 again) from West Percy Street a journey I used to do many years ago. Whilst waiting for the bus I looked along the road towards Northumberland Square and I could nearly count the amount of people I saw. I thought to myself this place used to be a busy thriving town now it is dead and this was a Saturday afternoon.