(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.

Ironically, the before the High Level Bridge works, the services around there were great. 

Whether you got off at the north end of the High Level, or further round towards Clayton Street etc, there was always an option of being in various parts of the town vs the current situation. 

Imo BSIP shouldn't be used for this. 
Operators just need to get their head in to gear (I'd say think outside the box, but it's too obvious) and realise people don't want to faff around changing or being inconvenienced.