(29 Sep 2023, 5:31 pm)Adrian wrote Having seen that Stagecoach and Arriva are offering pretty much a LA7 wide acceptance of GNE tickets during the strike action, I found it laughable how they're able to deliver it seemingly at the drop of a hat, yet we've been waiting months and months now for this TNE Day Ticket to be released.
It's not just that, though. This is something, especially in County Durham, that has been requested for years. It's always been met with excuses, competition commission won't like it, etc. But what do you know? Delivered within less than a fortnight!
Maybe this highlights once again, that it's protecting one's own interests at the expense of the customers.
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The Arriva ones are interesting as it doesn't cover Peterlee to Sunderland for some reason.
I don't know what Arriva / Stagecoach's intentions are but it'll be interesting to see if GNE are paying them to accept them or whether both are using it as an opportunity to poach some customers. The accepting corridors of both, in particular, seem to be very protecting of wiping out all of the GNE North Tyneside routes as they're all pretty much covered now by either the Metro or bus via some route.