(Yesterday, 5:23 pm)Storx wrote See I'm not sure there's much scope for guided busways in the North East since most our traffic issues are in urban areas and there's not space for them. The Metro objectively does everything else.
Centrelink though could've easily just been a bus lane along Askew Road though, it's basically all it does anyway and there's ample space for 3 lanes along there if required similar to the Felling Bypass one which I don't mind. Mind speaking of that area I'd love to see Bensham Road bus gated from Coatsworth Road into Gateshead. There's no reason why cars should be driving along there bar cutting the corner off going via Askew Road. It would massively boost buses in that area from being jammed in traffic.
imo the big problem with that is a lot of the traffic is local traffic heading to Team Valley / Metrocentre / Gateshead / Newcastle / Sunderland (via A1231) or what not. If you bypasses the A1 further West it would be a bit of a white elephant since who's realistically going to be using it? There's only 20k or so vehicles North of Morpeth and that's assuming that they're not local, there's just not much long distance traffic.
Not to mention the tunnel is much quicker for anyone from the A189 corridor in SE Northumberland anyway.
You mean the ones who can't use buses to do the journey (not through choice, but because there are no buses as an alternative) , so use the car instead?
Genuinely amazes me that the top brass don't look at those traffic jams or the places we see road investment and think 'oooh, there's some potential customers'.