(09 Aug 2024, 11:00 am)Adrian wrote Here you go. Be lost for words! 



I have to agree mind. It's an outrageous way to spend public money, to spend it on two of the operator's most popular routes.

I wonder why this doesn't go out to tender?

Genuinely ridiculous. 

I would support BSIP funding for the 21 if, for example, it was to extend it to a place without a bus service at present. This is using public money to subsidise what is often referred to as the flagship* Go North East route. 

Even quickly thinking about other routes which GNE have cut since 2020, this could have restored something like the X9 which would have doubled the frequency along that corridor and improved journey times on the X10. 

* Allocated vehicle standards would disagree.