• North Tyneside Transport Forum – 26 Feb

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    The North Tyneside Transport Forum’s first meeting of 2025 will be held online via Teams on Wednesday 26 February from 6.30-8.00pm. Meetings of the North Tyneside Transport Forum are an opportunity to hear about public transport and share constructive feedback on public transport and its links […]

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  • Our response to the North East’s Local Transport Plan

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    Our response to the Local Transport Plan (LTP) consultation can be found below: For information on the North East’s LTP, please visit: https://www.northeast-ca.gov.uk/localtransportplan

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  • Newcastle bus priority measures consultation

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    Newcastle City Council is consulting on its plans aimed at getting more people using the bus by improving service reliability across key bus corridors. You can view the schemes and feedback (by 9 February 2025) here: https://www.newcastle.gov.uk/bsip

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  • Let there be light, in Teams, Gateshead!

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    In a previous newsletter we covered a North East bus user who had been reporting broken bus shelter lights in Teams, Gateshead, for several years but to no avail. During the hours of darkness the bus shelters were uninviting and it was […]

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  • Gateshead PTUG February Meeting

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    The next meeting of GATESHEAD Public Transport Users Group will take place on Wednesday 19th February 2025 at Gateshead Civic Centre, at 14:30.(Lamesley Room – ground floor). Gateshead Civic Centre is a 5 minute walk from Gateshead Interchange for Tyne & Wear Metro […]

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  • Service 599 survey

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    The 599 Bus service started running in July 2024 to provide a new link to major employment sites and local communities. The bus has strengthened links with Sunderland Royal Hospital, the International Advanced Manufacturing Park (IAMP), the Nissan car plant, Sunderland city […]

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  • Go North East service change consultations

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    Go North East are planning service changes in North Tyneside, Newcastle and South East Northumberland, set to launch on Sunday 23 March 2025 – this includes some new services, some changed routes, timetable changes and withdrawn services. Consultation events are being held […]

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  • North Tyneside PTUG February Meeting

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    **Go North East will be attending to consult on upcoming North Tyneside service changes** The next meeting of our NORTH TYNESIDE Public Transport Users Group will take place: – on Saturday 8 February 2025– at ‘Big Local Community Centre’ (in the Blue […]

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  • NEST’s response to Local Transport Plan consultation.

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    The North East’s ‘Local Transport Plan’ consultation closes at midnight on Sunday 26 January 2025: https://www.northeast-ca.gov.uk/localtransportplan Following NEPTUG’s Transport Bootcamp event in November, various sustainable transport groups & campaigners from across the region agreed to come together and set common priorities to […]

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  • Response to ‘Newcastle Movement Strategy’.

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    Newcastle City Council is consulting on their ‘Movement Strategy’ until this Friday, the 29th of November. It is very important that the voice of public transport users is heard loud and clear. You can respond via their consultation page here: https://newcastle.gov.uk/movement-strategy We at […]

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