(08 Mar 2024, 9:08 am)DeltaMan wrote I've just read the consultation which was posted in NOVEMBER. GNE knew there was a chance they would not be paid to run through Jesmond in some capacity since whenever the tenders went out. If they didn't plan for a scenario where they didn't win the 35 (the consultation was pretty explicit), then what on earth have they been doing?

I don't know the answer but maybe GNE have took it back on commercially. There's absolutely nothing stopping them doing so, ignoring morals.

Unless the Great Park is filling the buses up (which it doesn't), then running a 20 minute bus service against a 7.5 minute bus service which is very well used is probably not the best idea. The buses are pretty much empty as they are anyway.

In an ideal world it should be split back at Newcastle and renumbered the 42 and ran every 15 minutes in tandem with the 43/44/45 which are struggling with capacity to give a bus every 5 minutes vs 7.5 minutes + 20 minutes with tickets accepted between both, but that's a different story.

Also wasn't there a rule when getting electric buses that they couldn't change the route for x years, or am I making that up?