(17 May 2025, 9:21 pm)Storx wrote Aye no arguments about the West Allotment - Newcastle side of the route, it's why it should be curtailed short. It's the West Allotment to Whitley Bay part that's the problem side, seen it a few times now near Wellfield and the most I've seen on it is 1 person and not surprised either considering it follows a more frequent 57 and doesn't really exactly do anything else.Personally, the 350/351 look to be working fine in their current form past West Allotment. The two buses per hour from Holystone Park as well as East Benton Rise is what's needed to attract passengers and grow the service.
Personally they'd be better to do the old 51/51A route which Arriva done instead with the 351 running to Whitley omitting the annoying Holystone Park backtracking and the 350 running to Holystone Park only
https://api.arrivabus.co.uk/routes/servi...p-2022.pdf - That timetable. Would save a bus aswell and should include the full evening timetable aswell since the whole 351 corridor in Whitley Bay is outright unserved in an evening now.
I don't know if GNE now run the 317 commercially, but the 350/351 could be an attractive proposition if GNE took these on commercially and have options to interwork them with something either end of the route.