(7 hours ago)Andreos1 wrote 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'.
Yeah can't disagree there, getting around Newcastle / Gateshead at the West side is absolutely appalling by any stretch of the imagination. I don't blame people for driving it tbh.
(7 hours ago)MurdnunoC wrote Centrelink could have easily been a bus link through the remnants of St Cuthbert's Village from Cuthbert Street/School Street to Mulgrave Terrace/Prince Consort Road using the existing access roads, with a new crossroads straight into Gateshead Interchange.
That way, it would have been more accessible to buses coming in from the south west/west towards Gateshead, avoiding both Askew Road and Bensham Road. It probably would have decreased the journey time of the X66 too.
Yeah that's true, forgot about the old Cuthbert Estate been a long time since that came down. Could've been the catalyst for a good bus connection through the area aswell. It's pretty crazy that there's been no development there aswell considering how central it is, but that's another thread tbh.