(13 Jul 2023, 7:05 am)busmanT wrote £73.5m for capital spending, £90m for revenue spending between now and March 2025 - a significant sum.
According to the publicly available papers for the Joint Transport Committee, £17m is being spent on the BSIP fares.
It's absolutely nothing, £10m of capital spending per council area wouldn't piss in a packet in comparison to the austerity cuts that have been took off them at the same time. Taking money from one hand and then giving a trickle back isn't a significant sum.
Not to mention the real time cuts that have happened because of the inflation the same government caused which hasn't been reflected.
£73.5 for Tyne and Wear would be good, but not for the majority of the North East stretching from Berwick to Barnard Castle.