Right, just had a bit of a rethink and came up with something else:
- Services withdrawn would be 41, 58 (between Hadrian Park and Newcastle), 58X and 310
- Service 40 extended to North Shields from Hadrian Park every 20 minutes via current 40 route to bottom of Hadrian Park near Bewick Park then the 310 route from there to North Shields. During the evenings and Sundays, service 40 would operate every 30 minutes throughout from North Shields to Wallsend. This service would continue to operate under the North Tyne Links brand.
- Cobalt Clipper service 309 remaining the same but decreased to every 30 minutes between Blyth and Whitley Bay. The PVR would be reduced by 1 to 9. The buses used would be 6101 to 6109. Evening journeys however would be enhanced to operate every 30 minutes between Cobalt and Newcastle. Sunday daytime journeys would also be revised to follow evening timings with a PVR of 4 throughout.
- NEW service 305 would be introduced between Hadrian Park and Newcastle via the 58 route to Battle Hill then the 310 route from there to Newcastle every 15 minutes (30 evenings and Sundays), extending to Wallsend from Hadrian Park via the 41 route every 30 minutes all day Monday to Sunday to combine every 15 minutes with service 80. The PVR would be 7 single deck vehicles and 4 during evenings and Sundays. The specification would be the same as Citylink 58. The brand would be Centurion.
- Cobalt Clipper service 309 and Centurion service 305 would combine to provide a bus to the same frequency Monday to Saturday daytime as what the 309 / 310 does now between Battle Hill Drive and Newcastle. That would be increased to approximately every 15 minutes during the evenings. These two services would depart from stand N at Haymarket.
- Coast Link service 304 would be renumbered to service 303. Everything else would remain unchanged including the X39 runs.
- Coast Link service 305 would be renumbered to service 304 and revised to operate between Rake Lane and Willington Square via New York Westminster Avenue, Norham Road, Formica Factory and Silverlink slip road to replace parts of the 310 and gain more passengers as well as less congestion to deal with. The PVR would still be 9 but another bus would have to be found from somewhere. The rest of the 8 B9TL's would have to be used from 6109 to 6117.
- Coast Link services 303 and 304 would provide a combined frequency of every 7-8 minutes (15 evenings and Sundays) between Norham Road (either from slip off for the 303 or Formica factory for the 304) and Newcastle Haymarket. These two services would depart from stand M at Haymarket.
- All four services would combine and operate every 3-4 minutes Monday to Saturday daytime (7-8 minutes evenings and Sundays) between Station Road and Haymarket.
RE: Go North East Service Suggestions