(11 Jan 2026, 5:28 pm)Storx wrote Talking about Heworth, there badly needs to be some serious discussion about how to serve Central Station coming from the South.

Since the Northumberland Line has opened, it hasn't half opened up my eyes how diabolical the links are to pretty much everywhere which isn't the Metrocentre.

Changing at Gateshead for one stop, isn't the answer either as it's a huge inconvience and nor is walking 15 minutes from John Dobson Street inbound either. It's very different 

The ironic thing is already do a loop which has a bus stop nearby at the High Level Bridge but we've got an obsession of terminating everything at a bus station or the middle of nowhere which imo isn't needed for turn up and go services like the 21, 56, 58, X1 etc.

They could easily do something like:


Which would give links to every part of Newcastle ie. someone who works at the new HMRC, can get on the bus outside for Low Fell rather than having to trail across half of Newcastle, similar for Central the opposite way.

An idea I had was open High Level Bridge back to being Buses Only in both directions, the bridge would obviously remain single lane due to weight restrictions and would operate with a sensor/signalling system that would switch traffic priorities every 2-3 minutes or when a Bus approaches, this would allow services from Gateshead to serve Central Station without having to go along Askew Road and Redheugh Bridge. Road configurations at both ends of the bridge would have to be redesigned.