If that's true, I'm not sure about them wasting 'investment' money on upping a bus service from every 15 minute to 12 minutes.

The point of the BSIP was about long term improvements to areas that don't have a service at all. Stuff like the 8, X24/X34 (evenings) and 434 I totally get as they're unserved at those times.

Same could be said about the X16 at Morpeth tbh.