(16 Oct 2025, 4:36 pm)Storx wrote Sadly there's not really any sensible P&R South of the Tyne as by the time you get to the Metrocentre and/or Heworth you're past most the traffic and might aswell do the rest of it. Similar discussion at Regent Centre, Four Lane Ends and Northumberland Park which are generally pretty poorly used. The last which has been shut for months now.

I've said this before, but, instead of all the humming and harring about building a P&R site at Eighton Lodge, Follingsby Park offers a better solution, in my opinion. 

Irrespective of whether the Leamside Line or the Wearside Loop are ever constructed in full, a relatively short spur from Pelaw utilising either heavy or light rail (heavy rail would be probably easier and cheaper as it's still sort of connected to the network although heavily mothballed) could easily service the site with shuttles into Newcastle. 

The space is there and it's easily accessible from the south via the A194(M), and could also be useful for Washington and the A182 corridor. If the road between Nissan and Follingsby is ever upgraded, it could also service traffic coming from the A19 too. 

None of the above is really achievable with the Eighton Lodge site. Any railway station near Lamesley or Team Valley would be still be quite a distance away from where the P&R site is earmarked to be, and even if the buses manage to navigate a traffic-free route along Durham Road, through Gateshead, and across the Tyne, it's still probably a 20 minute journey.