(01 Feb 2015, 3:12 pm)Malarkey wrote Well if a GNE Driver can get on for nothing as was the case last night as documented by myself, then anyone with a Valid GNE Ticket can get on also which will likely be the vast majoroity, if not then I would expect to see a load of complaints by Passengers using the evening service to GNE/Arriva, and Nexus then passing the Service back over to GNE, as someone who uses the evening service provided by Arriva quite frequently, I have had zero issues in the last 2 Years or so that Arriva have operated the Evening Service.
You do realise that all staff employed by Arriva North East, Go North East and Stagecoach North East can get on each other's buses for free and also use the Tyne & Wear Metro and Ferry for free, too?
A bus driver who works at Arriva North East's Whitby Depot can get the X93 to Middlesbrough, X7 to Sunderland, Metro to Newcastle Central, Stagecoach 100 to Metrocentre and back, and also the X15 to Berwick upon Tweed - completely free...
Go North East staff - if they so wished - could even get the train to Brighton and get on all of the Brighton & Hove buses for free too!