(06 Oct 2025, 7:57 pm)DaveFromUpNorth wrote or something simple like 340 341 serving (Wiltshire Drive and Hadrian Park ). link it with the Coast Road Corridor and remove the need for the 307 to visit Hadrian Park as an example
Yeah not a bad shout really.
The Regent Centre is the sort of place which is crying out for something like that.
Do something like this:
With them all running every 10/15 minutes, depending on the route. If you want to go to Gosforth or Newcastle, you do a quick hop to the Metro or the 20 buses that already run along Gosforth High Street with the hopper being included with the ticket for the other bus.
At the same withdraw the 35, Q3, X46 and 49 North of Newcastle and that's the resources which are used to run these frequent little hoppers rather than having an infrequent service just duplicating other services and getting stuck in traffic aswell.
I'm sure there's plenty other places where you could do the same; Northumberland Park for example.