(12 Jan 2026, 1:53 pm)cr51xln wrote Perhaps sending the diverted buses from Blackett Street onto new stops at Percy Street, so Grainger Street and Newgate Street aren't getting hundreds more buses per hour?

Aye could do, loads of options really like.

(12 Jan 2026, 4:30 pm)Kimlfixit wrote Not against the idea. But the on-street infrastructure, bus stop placements  and general information provision within the city would need to be drastically improved.

Yeah definitely, it's where the BSIP would come in and it would be worthwhile imo.

(12 Jan 2026, 4:33 pm)Andreos1 wrote 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 if push came to shove).
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.

Yeah agreed to be honest; mind the time Newcastle takes to do work, Northumberland Street has took the best part of 2 year, the things will be franchised by then.

It's a nightmare, kind of only realised with the Northumberland Line how bad it is really is. The more illogical stuff is stuff like the 21 serves the new HMRC on the way in but if you want to return you have to trek half way across town. It's a bit illogical really.

It's not helped that the bus station from the South is at the North side of city either mind; like it wouldn't be too bad if you had to walk in the right direction to catch your bus, but Eldon Square is the complete wrong direction. If only there was a bus station near the new HMRC site, oh wait...