(3 hours ago)Rob44 wrote that would be me!!! ;o;.

I still say too many buses go into Newcastle when thye could just end journey at gateshead,  Ive seen nothing on social media about people who wanted John Dobson street having to alight the "X" services at gateshead and hop on a 56,57,58, or 28,28bor 29 due to the express service going straight to barras bridge. 

Its no so bad now but before askew road was made bus lane it could take the bus a good 20 minutes plus at peak to get to eldon square and to be fair it wasnt just cars and lorries causing the traffice, it was other buses carrying freash air heading all to same destination

There are lots of routes that cross the Tyne Bridge but if you count the actual trips each hour, it's not an overwhelming number of departures

The Metro simply couldn't cope with the numbers of people that buses would be dump at Gateshead.