Too late to the party, and there is plenty of good answers but I would also like to provide a simple solution using extend() method:
list1 = [1, 2, 3]
list2 = [10, 20, 30]
new_list = []
for i in range(len(list1)):
new_list.extend([list1[i], list2[i]])
print(new_list)
Output:
[1, 10, 2, 20, 3, 30]