The level of service in Tyne and Wear, on the most part, doesn't seem to be too bad.

There is however a failure to acknowledge past mistakes, and running a half-hourly X1 getting folk to/from the Newcastle match, will be one of those mistakes.

The sensible option would be to run some football specials, taking the strain off of the regular services, but we don't seem to do 'out of the box thinking'