Which fares changing?
Almost all adult single fares in Tyne & Wear, County Durham and Northumberland will remain at £2.50, though some short hop fares will be less than this. Journeys into Teesside on service X10 and journeys into Cumbria on service 681 will still be capped at £3.

The tables below shows the prices for our one day and multi-day tickets from 2 Janaury 2026.

https://www.gonortheast.co.uk/changes-fa...nuary-2026

(17 Dec 2025, 10:57 am)Michael wrote Which fares changing?
Almost all adult single fares in Tyne & Wear, County Durham and Northumberland will remain at £2.50, though some short hop fares will be less than this. Journeys into Teesside on service X10 and journeys into Cumbria on service 681 will still be capped at £3.

The tables below shows the prices for our one day and multi-day tickets from 2 Janaury 2026.

https://www.gonortheast.co.uk/changes-fa...nuary-2026

An All Zones ticket is now £130 a month!? 

In comparison, you can travel on any bus in the Greater Manchester area for £80.

Apparently, next year ( not sure of when) the Tyne and Wear Day Rover is to be dissolved altogether, (Nexus decision) with the TNE £7.50 will remain/in place of . , which is a better ticket altogether

(17 Dec 2025, 11:26 am)Adrian wrote An All Zones ticket is now £130 a month!? 

In comparison, you can travel on any bus in the Greater Manchester area for £80.

An All Zones ticket that doesn’t get you into all zones as you’re charged an extortionate amount of money if you need to travel on the X10. And they wonder why ridership is down.

The price of buses in general are shocking lately;

They're so obsessed about banging on about £2.50 / £3.00 fares which might be cheap, if you're travelling from Consett to Newcastle.

The problem is the same fare from somewhere like Newcastle to the Swallow Hotel in Gateshead is also £2.50 and there's no realistic weekly/monthly tickets which is getting that any cheaper for a basic return.

If you're working 5 days a week, that's £100 a month (£98 due to T&W ticket). It's not cheap or good value, at all.

(Respect it's an extreme example that)

(17 Dec 2025, 11:26 am)Adrian wrote In comparison, you can travel on any bus in the Greater Manchester area for £80.

You can travel on any regional train, bus, metro and tram across the whole of Germany for €58 

I still don't understand why we aren't subsidising something like that, over single fares imo. Mind maybe not as extreme though, maybe the £80 mark instead which is equivilant of someone making 3 returns every week maybe, give or take?