(19 Jan 2023, 3:21 pm)deanmachine wrote I don't see how Newcastle's air pollution is a problem for places like South Tyneside, Sunderland or Durham though?

It’s not. 

If you personally don’t like that Go North East operates across several towns & cities across the region and is rightly prioritising improving the environmental credentials of vehicles allocated to the biggest city it serves, (to avoid financial penalty) then your ‘problem’ is with Go North East, not Newcastle. 

And as I said above as the money has been awarded to NECA, who don’t cover Newcastle, it may be that the electric vehicles are allocated to serving Central Gateshead & Central Sunderland. We’ll have to await further detail.