(08 Jul 2013, 7:22 pm)gtomlinson wrote Previous mention of TB14 on here. I caught this today whilst doing a home welfare visit to a sick colleague.
I got on the bus at Birtley Komatsu and duly paid my £1. I asked the driver if he had been busy and he said yes, 8 people had used the service. I commented is 8 in a day a lot and he replied...
'A day? That would be a rush, 8 this month and your the first fare paying passenger in 7 months!'
He had a note on a Gateshead Central Taxis document of passengers carried. He described the route as like 'boredom at its worst' and said the company had done figures that it would be cheaper for Nexus to pay for every passenger last year to have their own taxi than to tender out
The thing is though, despite what you've just said - in other words, the facts - I can guarantee there'd be a group of people that would complain if that service was to be withdrawn.