(15 Feb 2025, 4:17 pm)RMF1254 wrote Maybe it’s for those people who don’t live near a station or don’t want to pay an extra fare to the station. The walk to my nearest station is 20 minutes, the nearest bus stop about 3 minutes. I will walk to the station if it’s a nice day but certainly not in the rain or cold.
aye, but imo you'd be better doing a local bus service connecting with the trains instead so say if you wanted to go to Blyth Town Centre, when you step off the train from Newcastle the hopper service is there waiting to pick you up to do the last mile with reduced fares or even included with the POP Card to try and promote smart card usage.
It's a problem anyway getting into Blyth and, if advertised well, I can't see why it wouldn't do alright. It's basically the same as the 434 is but doing Blyth instead.
For people who don't want to change the commercial X10/X11 exists already.