(02 Jul 2026, 6:06 pm)Nerd4321 wrote This 

THIS EXACTLY THIS

How can we have buses back under public control if bus companies cant be bothered to send there bus services into metro or train stations 

The Northumberland Line is the biggest flaw for this by far. A train line which gives connections to areas and Newsham, Bebside & Ashington have a bus service nowhere close to the station. 

Bebside & Newsham even have a bus stop inside the station car park yet its not used by anything. Yet stated by posters at Newsham the X8 is meant to serve it. 

There was an article posted a few months ago about Arriva & Northern having pops at each other with Northern saying they dont want bus services to compete with the rail & Arriva saying why should they put buses into the stations 

You cant really call Northumberland Park an interchange cause it just isn't. An interchange is to change to multiple buses. And what do u have serving it. The 19. ONE BUS SERVICE for a station that has the metro which states "for Cobalt business park Silverlink retail AND local bus services "

One bus service to Cobalt & Silverlink from Northumberland Park its pathetic. 353/354/356 stop right round the corner. Re route them into the interchange. Send the 350 in there. Hell rumours were the 22 was gonna go there. Still aint seen it happen


We cant have a function buses back under public control if companies cant stop arguing over building blocks like there 5 years old

Even more shocking. Look at the hospital. I mentioned this the other day. The RVI. Newcastle main big hospital has 2 bus routes while the Wansbeck/QE/Freeman/Rake Lane get a better bus service 

Its all for profit these days screw the customer. Customer wants the bus route extended here. Tough dont care

It took them 3 years to re introduced the 342 round via the Airport & Dinnington again. That shows how bad a bus network is. But I can assure Big Kimmy is still busy playing grim reaper till the final old metro is scrapped and off the tracks

Oh and also I dont want to hear this "but people can walk to the bus stops which are 400meters" or some sh!t like that. This is the reason a lot of services are seeing drops in passenger numbers. Cause people want a direct bus service to these places. They dont want to walk miles for a bus

100% agree. although slightly off topic I don't see the point in the 342 serving the airport as it deems the route basically useless for getting to Kingston park
my girlfriend used to use the 342 to get to Kingston park for the metro to get to work every morning, but now that it dilly dallies around the airport it takes far too long for it to be worth using bar evenings and Sundays, so she gets the much earlier 44 to regent centre, that half of the time doesn't even show up. i know its a contracted route so few people were using it in the first place but surely that extension just makes the service even less attractive to people around Hazelrigg, Wideopen, Dudley and Killingworth.