(4 hours ago)Storx wrote Aye, sure there's lots of ideas you could come with really, bonus points if you can get rid of all the Venture services, I'd assume your 47A would replace the V5? I'm sure the people in Delves Lane would appreciate links further afield than Consett aswell, there's more than enough services terminating in Consett.
See thats would it would have to be as that was the result as to why the V5 was removed. The 47A replaced it at that time which then caused GNE to create the V3 between Medomsley/The Dene & Consett going through Shotley (i think).
I think some possible simple solutions GNE could come up with to try and at least calm down the 45 & 47 especially with more common Enviro 200MMC Allocations
So here's what I would do.
I won't do timings for these suggestions.
- Withdraw Services V1 & V2 since Venture is no longer being continued and remove the Town Centre --> Crookhall section of the V5.
- Have the 47 be extended to Crookhall & Delves Lane to cover the V1/V2 circular & V5 chunk.
- Change the V5 to Start at Templetown/Hownsgill Depot and run through this order: Hownsgill --> Consett --> Shotley Bridge --> Hospital --> Shotley Bridge Bank (Summerhill) --> The Dene --> Medomsley. This will remove the 16 to Shotley Extension. Also route does not need to be named the V5. Could be the C1 or a random number or even be the same
(replaces V5 from Consett to Medomsley)
- Reintroduce the 47A as either 46 or 45A. Runs between Consett --> Leadgate --> Bradley Bungalows --> Medomsley --> Ebchester Bank --> Lintzford --> Rowlands Gill --> Metrocentre --> Newcastle Eldon Square. Reintroduces the Metrocentre & Rowlands Gill link for Leadgate to Medomsley for the 3rd time in the past 20 years.
Summarised.
- Reintroduced Links to Metrocentre & Newcastle for Delves Lane
- V5 becomes a Shotley Circular
- An Additional Metrocentre Bus for Leadgate & Medomsley
Its not a lot but could just quieten down some of the 45 journeys