Category: Gateshead

  • Gateshead: JULY meeting

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    The Gateshead branch of NEPTUG will next meet on Wednesday 15th July, at 3.30pm in the Community Room, inside Newcastle Building Society, 12 Ellison Walk, Trinity Square, Gateshead, NE8 1BF. For more information, email: gateshead@neptug.org.uk

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  • Toilets to remain closed at Gateshead Interchange

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    We are disappointed to report that Nexus informs us they have no plans to reopen the public toilets at Gateshead Interchange.We have written the following letter to Mark Ferguson, MP for Gateshead Central and Whickham, to highlight the issue. Dear Mark Ferguson,Over

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  • Calls for a more sustainable, people-focused central Gateshead.

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    On 1st November, we sent the following letter to those listed below at Gateshead Council, calling for a more attractive, sustainable and people-focussed central Gateshead. Dear all:Cllr Martin Gannon (Leader of Gateshead Council, and NECA Cabinet Member for Transport),Cllr Freda Geddes (Mayor

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  • NEPTUG Newsletter – Summer 2025

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    Our Summer 2025 newsletter is now available via the link below. This issue features: – Campaigners from across the region working together – Pollution concerns – The social benefits of public transport – Meeting ‘the Metro Bashers’ – Calls for the Northumberland

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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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  • We can see clearly now the band has gone

    We can see clearly now the band has gone

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    For some time at Gateshead Interchange, one of the bus stands had a blue band running horizontally across it’s windows. When sat waiting at the stand it completely obscured the view of the destination screens on approaching buses, which is a little

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