(12 Jan 2026, 12:21 pm)Storx wrote Aye agreed, it's just a mess now but do agree I'm not sure two way on the High Level Bridge..

Btw I do think BSIP should be used though, but not towards the operators but more about making road improvements to make it work, stuff like potentially making Collingwood Street two way like you mentioned above. 

Truthfully Newcastle, needs to decide what it's long term bus plan is which includes closing Blackett Street, for once and all, and come up with something sensible

Like away from the loop (you could still do it) imo the network should be something like:


Which breaks up the Stagecoach services so it's not all slammed down Market Street, with the bottom end of Grainger Street going one way with the orange bits going pedestrianised because they should be imo. Would fix most issues really.

There's absolutely no guarantees operators would use it though. 
All that tax payers money used and on a whim, operators decide not to use it. 

It's happened many times before and I can't see it changing any time soon.

Just going back to your map, there was a period after Worswick Street closed, when a big chunk of the local cross-Tyne services operated an in/out type route, like the 27 takes now.

There were slight variants, such as some turning left down the Bigg Market off Grainger Street and others continuing down towards Central Station, back along Collingwood Street and then right on to the High Level Bridge.

Obviously it was two-way at the time, but the Durham and Washington services would come in off the High Level Bridge, turn left on to Neville Street and work their way up to Newgate Street.

So many options, which allowed people to get a bus which took them to their preferred part of the town.

On a personal note, I'm meeting some mates in the town towards the end of the month.
Some are bus-ing it, some coming on the Metro and others via train (but could bus there if push came to shove. Couldn't get back on the bus due to the ridiculously early finish times).
The only convenient meeting/drinking point (without a hike) is in the area around Central Station.

For a city like Newcastle, that shouldn't be the case.