(Yesterday, 1:06 pm)Storx wrote Aye that's fair, not going to lie I always think the route should be cut in half with two services:

6/6A: Kingston Park Loop - Walker
7/7A: Kingston Park Loop - Metrocentre

Like this:


With the 18 being part of it aswell, and them running around the loop in each direction both hourly and every 30 minutes the rest of the route. 

Would tidy it up a bit as it's a bit of a route around the world in the Blakelaw area and realistically no-one is going end to end. Would open some new links like Byker to Gosforth and Kenton to Kingston Park aswell. 

What you do with the rest of the 18 I don't know, extend the 653 through maybe? It would open up new links in the Benton area through to Wallsend which don't exist currently.

I actually like the sound of all that. Northstar would be the ideal operator, with the X22/X43 at the Metrocentre and the 18 at Benton/Walker from later this month.

Splitting the services in half would massively improve reliability. Be interesting to know if anyone does go end-to-end, I would assume not with the current frequency and unreliablity. Otherwise, potentially customers would go to/from the Metrocentre before or after their appointment.

Kingston Park is quite congested, so definitely a good place to split the route and operate a loop around the area.