(15 Jul 2014, 9:26 pm)Andreos Constantopolous wrote Yeah, it would need extending beyond Heworth - but that shouldn't be beyond the wit of man or Gateshead Council.
They have stacks of white paint hidden away in the Shearlegs Road depot (enough to get the roads painted/segregated several times in just a few years), unless it all got used up on Durham Road?

As for the multiple changes - why not? GNE built their model on a similar system

It'll take more than the stacks of white paint hidden away at the Shearlegs Road depot.

I'm vehemently against the approach of converting dual carriageways to one lane thoroughfares to accommodate bus lanes as it tends to cause congestion elsewhere through bottlenecking. If a bus-lane was created between Heworth and Gateshead, it really needs to be constructed alongside the existing road infrastructure.

So unless Gateshead Council have vast amounts of tarmac and paving stored at Shearlegs Road, then can take their white paint and....