(18 Feb 2026, 8:04 pm)Nerd4321 wrote Not being horrible here but whats with your slander to the W1 & W2. Have you seen how far the W1/W2 go into an estate to pick people up and take them into Whitley Bay. Seeing you complain about the W1/W2 makes me think you would rather make these people not have a bus service. If nexus didn't see any reason they would have been consulted to be withdrawn. I only see you complaining about it and nobody else. 

A person on here who thinks that yes screw the elderly they shouldn't have to go out and do shopping or see friends 

There's no reason to slander a route. I wonder what your thoughts would be if they changed to Taxi bus routes or would you complain about that as well

It's fine dw, just with the limited funds just see the money being better spent on places which really don't have a service.

The W2, I really don't understand why it exists at all, it literally duplicates the 351 bar one stop which is a very short walk to the links where there's 6 buses an hour, imo you'd be better upping the 351 to every 30 minutes throughout the whole route and getting rid of the 350 and W2. It'll benefit everyone, ideally including a full Evening / Sunday service since there's currently zero bus service and that's a problem. You may have to do some variants in the middle section to save time though or interwork it with something else, not sure what though. 

The W1 is just bizarre, bar Wellfield which actually does need a service - without question, I'm not sure the rest is needed - they've all got a bus stop within 400m which is a Nexus rule. Imo something like this: https://www.google.com/maps/dir/55.03213...?entry=ttu would be better and give people at Wellfield links West, partially covering what the 350 is doing anyway. It's just one of those routes that's kinda always been there but times have moved and with limited budgets and other areas with nothing - not sure we can be funding door to door routes anymore ie. the M71 in the West End which has just gone. 

I know someone in Valley Gardens will moan but it's literally a 5 minute walk to Newstead Drive and there's no care home or anything there. The 351 always has decent enough loads whenever I see it in the Earsdon area but the 350 is carrying tumbleweed so why try and grow it? It was commercial until a few year back and with the amount of house building on the route it can only go one way really.