Statto
Established Member
Not every route needs to be cut short, & not every route needs to continue through [if you know what i mean].
Absolutely. There were plenty of very sensible rationalisations when the Metro was introduced, such as truncating many (but not all) Washington to Newcastle services (as already mentioned). That saved many more resources that arbitrarily chopping some locals at Gateshead.Not every route needs to be cut short, & not every route needs to continue through [if you know what i mean].
IIRC when the buses were curtailed the daytime Metro frequency was 3 every 10 mins, i.e. a repeating 3/3/4 minute gap.I am just trying to imagine the reaction of forcing folk off the 21, 56, 57, 58 at Gateshead Interchange stand N on to an already struggling Metro system just to ride one stop in to Newcastle.....
If the Metro was every 2 minutes then I could see the argument, but it's every 6 minutes. Buses are arriving in Gateshead every 60 seconds. The Metro system today would not cope without buses going in to Newcastle