(11 hours ago)V514DFT wrote You know what i'd do, i'd utilise and divert the 22
I'm not sure how workable it would be but I'd always love to see the 56 split in the middle into 3 different routes.
So you'd end up with something like this:
With each of them every 20 minutes combining every 10 minutes in the core replacing the 82, 84 and 85 and killing off the stupid Washington local services giving people direct services to places where they might actually want to be and the 28 doing the current 22 route merging with the 29 to give a 30 minute service from Prince Consort Road to Newcastle.
Note it's also setup for the future if the Metro ever came with it being the links to the new Metro station which is where all 3 meet.
You could even make a case of scrapping the 57 as it's clearly struggling and merge it into the other local Gateshead services.