(10 Jul 2013, 6:46 pm)alandriver wrote Really? The ones i can think of are well served- quorum, rainton bridge, doxford, cobalt, newcastle business park, newburn, metrocentre, team valley,

Granted, if i live in chopwell and i applied for a job at doxford it would be a journey i could not do every day by bus/metro, but how many others would be doing that journey and who should provide that journey? Me, because it was my choice to apply for a job there and it is up to me to get to work on time (i.e get a car)? the tax payer via NEXUS where i would be the only one on it and not providing good value for money for the tax payer, or the bus operator where they would lose money?

I think the example you have given is a bit extreme, but it should be noted that as part of the Work Programme, the government expected commuters to travel up to 90 minutes each way to work if a suitable vacancy was available. If not, they could face losing their benefits. The trip you've suggested would only be 50 mile round, so it could be argued that its a reasonable distance to commute.

I personally feel the Team Valley has an extremely poor service from Newcastle. It has the 91 that runs hourly during the day, and that's it. A friend of mine lives in Fenham and works on the Valley. The distance she travels is little over 6 miles, yet she has to use three separate buses to get there - taking about an hour? Washington to Team Valley is another good example. It's about 5 miles from my front door to Team Valley, yet I'd have to get 3 buses there and 3 buses back - taking about an hour too?

The reason is the same for both counts. Despite Eldon Square/Haymarket and Washington Bus Station being 'Transport Hubs', they don't have a regular direct link to an employment hot spot little no further than 6 miles down the road. Doing so would chop the total journey time right down, and reduce the need to change bus so often.