(10 Feb 2025, 6:49 pm)Storx wrote I'm not too sure either mind. Our local bodies haven't exactly had the best track record either like mentioning Centrelink there.
The scheme is utterly stupid since the vast majority of people want to be in Newcastle and it effectively bypasses the place and heading towards Gateshead it goes away from the bus station so is actually longer to use.
The Centrelink scheme was late 90s, so it was a completely different world back then. Metrocentre was booming at the time, and indeed it was a regular feat to see those Centrelink Scanias full to the brim. It's the kind of scheme that we need to see more of, very much in the same way as guided busways have taken off towards Leigh, in Cambridge and in Luton.