I am lost for words!!!!
I am currently on the 11 (towards Pennywell) and a stagecoach employee also boarded the bus had a but of a confused look asking the drivers' duty number etc... and it wasn't the one he was expecting. Anyways after we left Borough Road and approached the bus stop for Vine Place the employee asked to see everyone's tickets and passes. Not sure why he didn't wait until after the stop as he was blocking everyone get on/off. 
He visually looked at people's paper tickets and scanned electronic ones on the app, Stagecoach Smart Cards & concessionary passes.

It has been like 2019(?) as the latest possible time since I've seen a ticket inspection on a bus.

Consultation now open
https://www.northeast-ca.gov.uk/localtransportplan

Didn't know where to put this but:

Latest notes from the local meetings.......


Some good ideas:


Gateshead Interchange - Refurbishment
Demolition of the whole interchange site and the redevelopment of a bus station on a smaller footprint, redesigned to address safety and security limitations, new retail, office and accommodation space, reconfiguration of the Metro station to make better use of the space and create better integration between public transport and the retail  - 32 million by 2032


New Alnwick Bus Station - 2028

Quite a few metro station upgrades planned

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Too much to discuss separately tbh
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NE Transport Pipeline - Headline Priorities - from page 99


https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%...-09-24.pdf

Link from a different source, that's how it was post.

In a post on the 'Friends of the PSV Circle' Facebook group, it has been noted that Enviro400EV AR74ZEB has been made by ADL at Falkirk for Arriva. There doesn't appear to be confirmation of where this is due to go, but suggestions it may be utilised as a trial vehicle? The North East alone are expecting electric double decks for Blyth and Durham, so we may see it here. 

There is also a new E400 MMC pictured, apparently for Southern Counties, but evidently investment is happening post-takeover when also taking into account the large volume of B8RLEs on order for elsewhere in the country.

Just curious but does anyone know what's officially meant to be allocated the 14 Pulsars at Blyth. I know in the past before the Jesmond moving routes around it used to be 6 boards on the X7/X8/X9 which appears to be what it should be nowadays and obviously there's the 1 on the 553.

The allocations are all over the place and unless there's been a serious drop in passengers going to college having one on the 06.54 X7 board is just bonkers, that used to be a well loaded decker.

Does anyone know where the other 7 are actually meant to be?

Seems to be an under publicised issue with GNE ticket machines corrupting POP PAYG cards. Nexus are clear where the problem is yet GNE drivers are not aware and allow cards to be used then corrupted - It has happened to me twice now. Sort of defeats the idea of the POP PAYG cards.

anyone got a link to the diversion GNE will be using during this?  I wan to get from the penthouse over to town fro a few beers but not sure how the 27 will get across from pelaw to heworth metro with road being closed?    Check nexus and GNE web sites to no avail

Oh and im not pay 3.80 on the metro!!

I see Geoff Marshall has done a video titled "Britain's Buses at their Best, with comments from some of Go Ahead MD's and our favourite designer

https://youtu.be/xubslJLmbZA?si=flTY-mYaVhPyLjA6

like this....

Car park and ride left totally empty as £51million project can't afford to connect to road (gbnews.com)

Apologise it GB news but it seems to be a right white elephant. Hope the one at AON doesn't end up like this!

Boro based Siesta Travel have announced this is their last season doing coach holidays to Europe.

Important announcement: 2025 season!

We know that many of you have been waiting for the launch of our 2025 season and we are so sorry to have to disappoint you, sadly, after 45 seasons of providing coach holidays to France and Spain it has been decided that 2024 will be our last season operating our coach shuttle service.

For those of you that have a booking in place for 2024 please do not be concerned, your holiday will still go ahead as planned and for those who had hoped to travel with us in 2025, we sincerely hope you can join us on one of our farewell 2024 trips! Our last departure of the Summer season will be 19th October and we will also run our winter private groups and our Xmas and New Year special.
The Lodge self-catering accommodation for 2025 season will be available to all Siesta Holidays customers via Lifestyle Holidays and a ‘previous Siesta customer’ discount of 10% will apply.

Many factors, mostly outside of our control, have made the coach programme more and more difficult to operate, particularly to the high level of customer care that our loyal customers expect of us. Above inflationary rising costs of fuel and channel crossings, essential to providing our package holidays has also made it more challenging to be able to provide the affordable holidays upon which we have built our reputation.

We would like to take this opportunity of expressing our gratitude to our many thousands of clients who have supported us throughout the years, and particularly those who helped us through the pandemic. The loyalty and support of our clients and staff is amazing and very much appreciated!

I loved looking through the photos.

It's a shame that it's been tarred with reports on social media.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/c7xFVecCAxdFtG1w/