(08 Aug 2021, 7:46 am)Metroline1511 wrote On one of my days in Newcastle in June, I started my day travelling Newcastle - Peterlee - Durham - Stanley - Newcastle. I rode just Go North East buses that day. I am disappointed at the withdrawal of route 208 linking Peterlee with Durham, even though it is slower than Arriva.
Given their decent local networks in Durham & Peterlee and the fact GNE have Peterlee to Sunderland sewn up - it would be interesting if GNE went in for the kill on the direct Durham - Peterlee 22/24 services. It could sway users on both ends onto GNE season tickets over Arriva.
Perhaps it would be too much of a direct swipe at a bus war when the government are still subsidising operations. That’s if Arriva could put up much of a fight, they seem fairly paralysed at the moment.