(11 hours ago)Storx wrote Nah I don't disagree but personally just think it should be split into 2.

So you'd have a:

Northumberland Park - Newcastle service
and
Northumberland Park - Whitley Bay service integrating the W2

It means you can then have appropriate vehicles and frequencies for both halves of the route and the top route imo would be quite attractive to commercial operators. If someone like GNE took it on and feels like it's attractive commercially since it compliments their Coast Road services then that's money free'd up to do stuff elsewhere.

Btw the 350 only exists as the 351 is too slow to run with a PVR 4. It's why I've always said they should bin off the W2 and just make the 351 every 30 minutes the full route with a PVR 5. The 351 imo is the more important half of the route if you're keeping the full route and the you'd have an extra 10 minutes or so every run if you fancied extending it somewhere, ie. Northumberland Park.

Probably the wrong thread for this, but I actually think Northstar could make a good go of this if they took it on commercially.