(13 Apr 2025, 12:40 pm)markydh wrote The 62 replaced the 71 to Throckley to give the outer west a link to West Denton shops. This was campaigned for by local residents and going back is not something that would be accepted, particularly now Aldi is moving to the old Go Outdoors unit on West Denton Way.
Yeah remember that now actually, fair point there, no doubt there's a lot you could do with the 6/7/62/63/71/72/87 to move some of the buses out the sticks and onto the core but it's not really my area tbf.
You could probably drop the 62/63 down to every 30 minutes each from Four Lane Ends to Killingworth aswell now the 37/38 is heading to the Killingworth area, whenever I see them they're pretty much dead. Seems very overbussed. Is there really that much demand from Byker to Killingworth and the bits in between as no-one sane is heading to Newcastle in that direction, as every part of the route has a faster bus / Metro (37/38/355/X7/X8/X63) depending where you are? Obviously that would be rightfully be very unpopular though.