(Yesterday, 8:16 pm)DodgepotMcDougal wrote Appreciate this may come under service suggestion and It will obviously depend on where there is a critical mass of people, but I'd like to see Lothian Buses style peak X express services mirroring the main routes as part of the solution. Although they'd probably be oversubscribed!

Something like a 56X from the estates of Washington (not the Galleries) and fast to Newcastle, a 10X from Crawcrook, avoiding Blaydon and fast via Scotswood Road or 27X from Lukes Lane, Monkton Lane and Pelaw then fast to Newcastle. Places unconnected with the Metro where the standard bus route takes way too long to be attractive.

(11 hours ago)tyresmoke wrote That is exactly the style of service we have in my new home near Brisbane. The operator I work for have several local routes during the daytime and at peaks we run exactly the same route then express to the city and they do prove popular. There is a huge commuter flow towards the city of Brisbane though! So much so that off peak is very quiet as everyone is at work in the city…

It'll be interesting to see when the peak would be for the new government hub in Newcastle. Most of the staff will probably be on flexi time, my office has that and people drift in any time between 7-10am and leave any time between 3.30-7pm. It could be hard to judge when that peak will come from there.