A very interesting video from transport campaigner and rail engineer Gareth Dennis on the ‘Mini Switzerland’ trial in the Hope Valley, UK.
Much of the same lessons can be applied to Northumberland, using existing railway stations and buses, but operating them as a cohesive, intergrated system and not as a bus system that is separate to the rail system as is currently done (the obvious example of this being the new Newsham station on the Northumberland Line, but also the long standing problem of running co-ordinated buses and trains to stations such as Alnmouth, Morpeth and many more.
Lots of lessons to be learnt from this ‘Mini Switzerland’, and of course the Swiss nation more generally and applied here in Northumberland, North Tyneside and Newcastle more generally.
Something we once had a glimpse of under the Tyne and Wear PTE; but needed much more broadly now.
The Northumberland Coast Loop 