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The improvements will be made to coincide with the move of the main Gateshead College campus to Hawks Road near Baltic. We have listened to what customers have said and plan to make the following improvements – |
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Monday to Friday peak time services will be increased to operate every 10 minutes between the new Gateshead College Baltic Campus and Team Valley South End. This will significantly improve access to these two important sites
from Gateshead with no need to consult a timetable at busy times. |
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Monday to Friday evening services between 1800 and 2200 will be increased to operate every 15 minutes between Gateshead Interchange and the new Gateshead College Baltic Campus to improve access to the college for evening courses. |
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We will be launching a stunning new brand to the service to enable customers to identify their bus more easily. This will have a black base with gold lettering and has been achieved in partnership with our partners at Access Team Valley and Gateshead College. |
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As a result of increased frequency, Loop buses will depart from stand C in Gateshead Interchange and to simplify things, journeys on service 193 will be withdrawn. |
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The easy route to Gateshead College Our new Loop service will provide direct, frequent connections for students attending any of the Gateshead College sites as it links them up! Whether you are attending the new Baltic Campus, the Skills Academies on Team Valley or the Academy for Sport at Gateshead International Stadium, The Loop will take you there! For more information on courses or to enrol call 0191 490 2246. |
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We can offer you great ticket deals too with our ‘Get Around’ tickets, our special tickets for people in full time education who want to save a packet! Once you have your Get Around ID card you can buy a ticket for use on any Go North East service at any time of the day (except ‘N’ prefix night services) for:
Are you clued up on our bargain fares for adults?
BUZZFARE tickets give you unlimited travel for a day or a week with prices starting at £3.20 a day and £13 a week for one zone and £4.20 and £17 for two zones. To work out whether you need a one or two zone ticket just check the list of places and zones below
NETWORK TICKETS give you unlimited use of all bus operator and Metro priced according to how many zones you want to travel in – see Network Ticketing leaflet for details.
UNDERSTANDING THE TICKET ZONES
The Loop operates wholly within our PURPLE fare zone. This includes Gateshead Town Centre, Newcastle City Centre, MetroCentre, Heworth, Low Fell, Washington, Birtley and most of Western Gateshead.
If you want to travel in just the Purple zone, you need a one zone ticket at £3.20 a day or £13 a week. If you want to travel in an adjacent zone you need a 2 Zone ticket at £4.20 a day or £17 a week. This includes travel to South Tyneside, Sunderland, Houghton-le-Spring, Chester-le-Street, Stanley, Durham, Consett and Chopwell.
Buy daily or weekly tickets from the driver or weekly or longer period tickets from your local Paypoint agent. There are hundreds of PayPoint agents and you can search for your nearest one by entering your postcode on their website.
A selection that are located on the The Loop route are:
Finlays – Maingate, Kingsway North, Team Valley
Finlays, 117 Southend Road, Beacon Lough
United Co-op, 64 Beacon Lough Road
Kellars Cellar, 144 Balmoral Drive, Felling
High Felling Discount Stores, 1 Richmond Terrace, Felling
Jackson Street News, 15 Jackson Street, Gateshead
If you don’t live directly on The Loop the diagram below shows where you can change services to join The Loop. In addition to this, there are timed connections with most services at Gateshead Interchange to both Team Valley and
Gateshead College.
Making life simpler and easing the Congestion
The Loop service has just got better and better over the last three years. This is largely due to the ‘kickstart’ funding received from the government through the Department for Transport (DfT) to increase the frequency of this service to every 15 minutes in January 2005. This funding ends in January 2008.
During this time we have managed to implement a number of infrastructure schemes in partnership with Gateshead Council to get ‘The Loop’ moving through the traffic more quickly and making life easier for our customers including:
Amending the route taken by buses through the South End bus station at Team Valley to reduce delays associated with the Team Valley Retail Park. |
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New shelters at all stops on Kingsway through Team Valley. |
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Extension of the yellow box markings on the exit from Heworth Interchange to make it easier for buses to get back into the flow of traffic. |
However, just because the funding has ended we are not stopping there! We plan to continue to work with our partners and make the following additional improvements over the next twelve months:
Completion of the implementation of ‘bus stop clearways’ on the whole route to ensure that stops are kept clear of other traffic to allow customers to board The Loop easily. |
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Junction improvements at Cuthbert Street / Bensham Bank and at the junction between Queen Elizabeth Avenue and Old Durham Road to give greater priority to buses. |
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Improving the traffic light phasing near Gateshead Stadium at the junction with the A184 to give buses greater priority. |
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Amending the traffic calming through the Old Fold Estate to be more ‘bus friendly’. |
Ever wondered how you could make your journey to work easier? Or thought about what you could do to reduce the distance you travel? This website provides everything you need to know about changing how you travel to work to make it cheaper, healthier and less stressful for you, and less polluting for the environment.
We want to hear from you
| Our dedicated Service Delivery Manager for The Loop is Phil Rayner, who will be travelling on services 93 and 94 to speak to as many of our customers as he can about our services in the coming weeks. He is
always pleased to hear your comments. You can contact him at – Go North East, The Loop, FREEPOST NT 2674, Gateshead, NE8 1BR |
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For more information contact our Customer Services Team
0845 60 60 260
lines open 0800 - 1800
email: customerservices@gonortheast.co.uk