(01 Aug 2023, 9:48 pm)mb134 wrote It currently does, but comments made about the 434 indicate it'll be standalone from September (the 448 seems to be the reason it currently starts so late and ends so early, and this new tender seems to be for an hourly service for most of the day).
The 448 is rather pointless to be fair, the 1/2/X21 all do Bedlington Station to Guide Post & Stakeford. Not sure if it's continuing, or if NCC use a bit of common sense and just fund bus passes for the Arriva services (as they did with the X14).
Aye that's fair, didn't know about it bar what that councillor leaked so interesting.
Has it actually been confirmed that Arriva has it though? Seems a bit strange they've got that when the rest of the routes haven't been tendered yet (as far as I'm aware).
(01 Aug 2023, 9:50 pm)Shrek wrote Will one of them not still be required to run the Regent Centre to Freeman journeys on 553?
Yeah but anything could run on it now. The narrow streets were at the Wallsend end. Not sure they'd want to keep 3 of them for a PVR of 1 depending on what happens with the service mentioned above.