(03 Jun 2023, 9:04 am)Storx wrote Aye it'll definitely be interesting, especially in Co. Durham which the 60/61/65 are all in with the reduction in English National Concessionary funding. The cuts with Arriva are pretty hard in some areas and the routes which are getting cuts there ie. the Darlington locals always seem stronger than the likes of the 61 and 65 on an evening and Sunderland. Heard there's similar due for Stagecoach aswell.
Some of the Consett routes could be seriously at risk aswell as they're never exactly the busiest routes especially at night, the likes of the 6 in particular which is constantly meddled with.
I'm usually quite critical but reducting the funds, regardless to there being less passengers or not, is just wreckless imo. The sad thing is whichever smart arse thought the small savings was clever is now dumped with the issue of subsidising some of them or leaving whole towns stranded in the case of Barnard Castle on a Sunday. Suppose in the case of Teesside they can just plowing money on the fantasy airport which ironically doesn't have a bus service now...
I would like to think most of GNE’s cuts have already been made, over several iterations of ‘getting fit for the future’.
If anything, GNE seem to be looking towards growth (North Tyneside) and re-building the network (gradual reinstatement of frequency on 8, 65, X6) at the moment.
The scale of the Arriva cuts seem to be similar to that of the scale of GNE’s previous cuts.
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