(14 Jan 2026, 4:21 pm)Storx wrote Aye not the worst shout that, must admit I was wondering what route they took; be interesting going along the secret staff road that not many people know about. 

Must admit, if we're keeping buses - still think the Metro would be better, I'd be tempted to be radical and up it to every 10 minutes but at the same time increase the express parking to £8.

Give people a choice, pay up or jump on a bus for 5 minutes, which is turn up and go, which if you're using a taxi anyway - by the time you stand around waiting for the taxi to turn from the P&R car park you could've jumped on the bus anyway and saved money. 

The lazy people who pay the £8 can fund the extra bus. I'd personally happily jump on that bus. Having a free parking option 5 minutes walk away was a bit silly really, I can get why they got arid of that.

We should operate the same way Edinburgh Trams to where for example a single is £2.20 from Princess Street to Ingliston P&R however if you state on the farefinder questions you're going to the Airport your then charged £7.90, so you're essentially paying a £5.70 levy to travel the additional stops required. I think we should introduce something similar on the Tyne & Wear Metro which would give people a choice as you have stated above.

I have also said for a long time we should have an Airport Bus to/from Newcastle City Centre (Berwick Street) to give people an alternative option or under Northern Powerhouse Rail have National Rail Services run up to the Airport as they did many years ago, people will use them if the options are there.

I don't get the point of the Arriva 777 (Morpeth - Kingston Park), why terminate at Kingston Park when you can go all the way into Haymarket and interwork with existing services as it does with the X16 at Morpeth, you could actually merge the X47/777 into one service for when bus come back into public control.

The 787 from Stagecoach is another one, why is there demand for a during the night service but not at all during the day, literally makes no sense to me.