Category: Local Groups
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Sunderland bus priority measures consultation
Sunderland 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 5 March 2025) here: https://www.sunderland.gov.uk/BSIPChesterRoad https://www.sunderland.gov.uk/BSIPDurhamRoad
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Newcastle bus priority measures consultation
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 (various deadlines up to 9 March 2025) here: https://www.newcastle.gov.uk/bsip https://www.letstalknewcastle.co.uk/consultations/538/participate
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Let there be light, in Teams, Gateshead!
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 difficult to read the timetables.Overgrown and low hanging tree branches were also obstructing…
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Service 599 survey
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 centre, and Jarrow and Hebburn town centres. Now, eight months on from the…
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Go North East service change consultations
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set to launch on Sunday 23 March 2025 – this includes some new services, some changed routes, timetable changes and withdrawn services.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 between 30 January and 4 February and they will also be attending the…
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Response to ‘Newcastle Movement Strategy’.
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 NEPTUG have developed a detailed response to the consultation which might give you…
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Consultation on ‘floating’ bus stops
North Tyneside Council would like to hear your views on a type of bus stop design included in first phase of the Sea Front Sustainable Route in North Tyneside. It is known as a Bus Stop Bypass arrangement and can be found on Grand Parade, located south of its roundabout with Beach Road. A Bus…
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Consultation: Planned changes to service 35 in Newcastle
Nexus have launched the following consultation on changes to the service 35 in Newcastle. https://www.nexus.org.uk/consultation/item/planned-changes-service-35-newcastle The closing date for the consultation is 5pm on Friday 11 October 2024.
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Election Hustings – Newcastle North
There will be an election hustings on public transport, active travel, air pollution and climate emissions for the candidates in the Newcastle North consituency on Wednesday 26 June 19:30-21:00 at the Trinity Centre, Gosforth. The followinf candidates have been invited (alphabetical order of party): Guy Renner-Thompson – Conservative PartySarah Green – Green PartyKing Teare –…
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We can see clearly now the band has gone
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 inconvenient when you’re trying to work out which bus is yours. After overhearing…