Depending on the situation in 10 days time, I think we could well see a similar model used for this group of contracts as we have seen for those on North Tyneside.

The contracts that involve the handing over of 100% service operations (ie. 168) happens, but those that only apply on an evening & Sunday temporarily remain with the daytime commercial operator working from their timetable.

As for ticketing, confusion over pass use when operators change is a risk regardless of being in a health crisis. You'd hope that operators would publicise the ending of the current ticketing agreement just as much as they did when entering it. After that, as clarified previously, it's down to Nexus.