(11 hours ago)Storx wrote See I'd be more radical here and merge it with a whole load of subsidised services and the 9. Something like:
It's not far off being PVR neutral either considering this is replacing the 9 (PVR 4), 19 (PVR 3), 58 (PVR 1), 319 (PVR 1) and 306 (PVR 2) - believe it would be 1 bus with loads of new links ie:
- South of the Tyne to Cobalt
- Cramlington to New Hartley / Seaton Sluice
- New Hartley to Seaton Sluice / Whitley Bay
- Whitley Bay / Tynemouth to North Shields Ferry
- Sandy Lane / Wideopen to Killingworth
- Seaton Delaval / Seghill to Killingworth
- Seaton Sluice and Blyth to Tynemouth
- Tynemouth to Cobalt Central
- Loads of places to Cramlington Hospital
If marketed well could see it picking a few people up here and there personally. The 19 North of Cobalt, is doing quite well recently.
I'd split them after the Tyne Tunnel, reinstate the 310 Sunderland- Blyth, then have a 311, which would split after the Tunnel and would replace the 19 from Percy Main, then so nobody is without service extend the 340/341 to make quite a sizeable circular, my 310 idea would also reinstate the Royal Quays with a service when they lost the 19, it would go Howdon Road, George Stephenson Way, Prince Consort Way, Ferry Terminal, Transport Hub
319 could then be withdrawn as Howdon Road would be covered by the 310 and 317