Match the window before the distance.
Choose a pre-agreed regional window and endpoint; keep spontaneous discovery within each city’s own local page.
Starting around Newcastle
At the Newcastle end, use “This is a planned regional connection rather than a genuinely spontaneous local radius.” as a scheduling prompt rather than a claim that the whole route is local.
Planning around Middlesbrough
At the Middlesbrough end, choose a pre-agreed regional window and endpoint; keep spontaneous discovery within each city’s own local page.
Compare both local pages
Treat each town as a separate local context, then use the overlap planner rather than assuming the full route is convenient at every time of day.