(17 Jul 2019, 12:51 pm)Andreos1 wrote

Totally agree with your sentiments.

Miss the 50 from Boldon, need to get to Washington - pay the additional surcharge to go via Heworth and then back in to the red zone or wait for the next 50?

Not too bad during the day, but painful at other times.

I think I made the point previously about there being some sort of overlap between zones. A 'no-mans zone' for want of a better phrase - not too dissimilar to Washington, but on a smaller scale.

I'm not sure how it could be policed or managed, but allowing a red ticket to travel in to the next zone would go a long way to appeasing those who live on or near a border.

The boundary between Chester and Tyne & Wear (using the 71, 78 or 8 as examples) doesn't benefit any passengers. Particularly on those evening trips.

Stick an overlap in of sorts and travelling between the points can become viable.

I see where you're coming from, but once you start letting people use their ticket in another zone by a stop or two, it's going to get abused.

What they could have done that would have been nice would make the interchanges near the borders a 'netural zone' so you can go via them, as long as you get on a bus that goes back into the zone your ticket is for

Or even if they operated a policy where it's at the drivers discression, but I know when I was on the 27 to Newcastle, someone tried to get on the bus one stop into the red zone as they couldn't make it to the next stop, and the driver made them pay for a ticket to the next stop.