(15 Apr 2020, 8:52 am)Dan wrote Disagree with this statement.
They're horrid around here I'm not sure whether it's a mistake or a pricing error but the 19 pricing around is a right mess and it just shows how it doesn't work in places.
Just for an example:
Northumberland Park -> Holywell Milbourne Arms - £1.70
Northumberland Park -> Holywell, End of Tillmouth Avenue - £3.10
It's literally 500m or so and your getting charged an extra £1.40 yet the same fare goes all the way through to High Pit which is about 3 mile in the other direction.
People would use it more if you made it cheaper and actually advertise the connection with the metro but it's just too much atm to be viable especially when you have to throw the Metro on top (we have no intermodel tickets here). It'd be £6.00 for a single using the 19 / Metro combo and even more for a return £9.00'ish. If you dropped it a bit to say £2.10 with a £3.50'ish return you'd have a chance to take some punters off the X7 as it's a joke at rush hour or even the 57 (which is cheaper including the extra zone and more frequent) and wouldn't actually be much more with the chance to get to more places at the same time or at least let upto the hospital be in the North Tyne zone. It's £4 from Seaton Sluice to Newcastle, yet we pay £5.10 for a return to Northumberland Park.
I know on the questionaire you asked about it when it first started but it just never happened.