(2 hours ago)S830OFT wrote To be honest something has to be done to improve the Newcastle Express services as they just seem so mixed up & just too many buses 'X' coming from Blyth to Cramlington & Newcastle.
The X22 would be a good route to send into Cramlington if the X20/X30 wasn't viable. I wouldn't personally up any frequencys just yet, although it would be nice if the Network could be structured so that connections can be made easily, running times are achievable & people know where each bus actually goes.
Things like the 43 to Cramlington Hospital on a Sunday is just a waste of time & misleads people who may go to use it during the week and find it doesn't go there. Atleast have the same bus going in everyday (57/57A) so it actually makes sense to the typical passenger...
Yeah get that, I get that, tbh the stuff I done above tidies it up a bit into 3 corridors really:
X7/X8 (Orange): Quorum Express
X10/X11 (Pink): Cramlington Express
42/43 (Purple): Cramlington around the world bits
That's it drawn out, to make it a bit clearer and opens decent links to the hospital as it's bloody awful atm.
The X8/X9/X10/X11 do jump around too much imo though and the X9 just sits out like a sore thumb through Gosforth when there's capacity issues on that corridor anyway.
I don't know how feasible it would be to have the X7/X8 interwork at Blyth and 42/43 to interwork either with being able to travel through to promote through links aswell, since the Blyth and Cramlington local town links are bloody awful - Blyth in particular.