(29 Jun 2025, 9:47 am)V514DFT wrote Obvious one for you would be to rejig the 12 as that already serves Scotswood Road
imo, the best way to sort it - if the North East is being ambitious here for a change, would be a to be a new road/rail bridge to the East of the Metrocentre like this with a new rail station on the North side of the water opening up development around the old heliport site:
If you restricted the bridge to public transport and walking/cycling only you'd open a real advantage to using buses etc and open a much much quicker link between the Metrocentre and Newcastle for both rail and buses giving them a real advantage rather than meandering around Dunston/Teams and then being stuck on the Redheugh Bridge.
Would be a massive game changer imo for public transport and also opens more capacity on the King Edward Bridge which has issues as it is. The Tyne Valley line is horribly slow from the Metrocentre to Newcastle aswell.
It would be good use of infrastructure funds imo. Sunderland is building bridges like there's no tomorrow in recent times so there's money out there.