(16 Oct 2025, 6:19 pm)DaveFromUpNorth wrote well the problem when the did the park and ride study Grangetown/ leeechmere was explored  and Lidl bought the site instead and built a  bigger Lidl and used the carpark!  This was going to be to get people to Newcastle Fast (either Metro or Regional Rail)

Never knew about that one, would've been a good site though to be honest.

Mind speaking of bus P&R, the only place I think would be really work is a double one at Team Valley at both ends (if you can get the Northern land) like so:


imo it covers a much wider area than the Eighton Banks one at the next junction, but the massive bonus of this is there's a potential of a counter flow for the express services of workers heading towards Team Valley. It's how a few of the York P&R routes work like the Designer Village and Monks Cross and it works well imo. 

It's why I think Follingsby could work aswell as you've got the same counter flow, which already exists with the 58X anyway. No-one wants to be in Low Fell so any P&R at Eighton is either going to be the unbearable 21 or dead buses for 1/2 the journeys against the peak which will never be sustainable.