(11 Oct 2022, 6:40 pm)BusLoverMum wrote The services competing with the 22 /23/24 are precisely the ones that gne have all but eliminated over the past few years. Clearly not enough people had a use for them.I would love a multi-operator ticket, that's not ridiculously priced, because if all the services in the North East were served under one operator, let's say GNE, I still think a GNE weekly ticket would be £18, and that's why I think we should have publicly owned public transport.
The city vs county divide between stagecoach and other operators stems back to the operators that stagecoach and gne took over from. What would benefit those routes the most is better multi-operator ticket options outside of the nexus area, particularly for those of us who would pay full adult fares.
RE: Reversing the decline in passenger numbers