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The next step in the Superoute programme, launched five years ago, will offer passengers the guarantee of frequent services all day, every day, low-floor easy access buses, smoother journeys and better information. They'll give passengers reliable, high-frequency buses that compete with the car for cost and convenience on our busiest routes into towns and cities. Effort will be concentrated onto the most important commuter routes into urban centres, with local authorities, Nexus and bus companies joining forces to deliver a better service for passengers. Bus priority technology will include conventional no-car and bus-only lanes but also traffic lights that change as buses approach and buses linked to gps-technology to deliver real time information to stops. Felling Bypass The first of this new generation of Superoutes was officially launched by Nexus, Gateshead Council and Go North East in October 07. It's a new bus lane alongside existing traffic lanes on the Felling Bypass, and Gateshead Council’s investment means more reliable, frequent bus journeys to Heworth Metro and on to the centre of Gateshead and Newcastle for more than 1.5 million passengers every year. Up to 17 buses an hour pass in each direction, including the M1,M2 and M3 routes between Washington Galleries and Heworth Metro, the Fab 57 and 57A to South Shields, the X3 and X4, 160 and the X10 Newcastle-Middlesbrough express. Visit our bus timetable section for full details. Chester Road, Sunderland Sunderland City Council, Nexus, Go North East and Stagecoach are working together to make bus journeys along Chester Road better. This will involve some construction work, which will be completed by the end of March 08, to make the route more bus-friendly. The work will include: - converting the Eldon Street and Stewart Street crossings to Puffin crossings
- improving the junction of Chester Road and Kayll Road, including the signals at the entrance to the Hospital
- no parking at bus stops between St Michael's Way with Woodville Crescent
- waiting and loading restrictions between The Royalty and Ewesley Road
So, if your bus travels along Chester Road, once the Superoute is finished your journey will be faster and more reliable, as buses won't be unnecessarily held up by traffic lights, parked cars or junctions along much of the rest of Chester Road.
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