(02 Sep 2019, 9:15 pm)Storx wrote
Hopefully as it would improve it massively imo.
Personally I always thought it was down to the transfares with the metro and it effectively causing a cap on the max they could charge however when your cross the boundary they basically have a free for all and abuse it.
Some anomolies on the 20 though mind just looking at the prices, £4.60 for a single from Houghton to South Shields yet it's £3.70 for a two zone transfare for example. However in general they tend to be under the transfare. £3.60 East Rainton to Sunderland vs £4.60 to Durham for example.
Whatever it is it's delibrate (I'm bored tonight and was curious) and it's the same all over when crossing boundaries:
X45 Newcastle to Hamsterley £3.60 a extra on mile or so to Ebchester it's now £5.30
28 Newcastle to Birtley is £3.10 then to Ouston Crossroads it's now £4.60
55 Houghton to Easington Lane £2.10 but to South Hetton it's £3.60
19 Northumberland Park to Holywell £1.70 but to Seaton Delaval £3.10
20 Houghton to East Rainton £1.70 but to West Rainton it's now £3.10
That's another thing that gets me, on the X21, it's £4.60 from Newcastle to Durham, but to Nevilles Cross it's £5.30, but then to Tindale Crescent it's also £5.30
And also, even though the single ticket on your X45 example and the X21 to Tindale are the same price at £5.30, the return ticket for the X45 is £7.00 and the X21 is only £6.50.
But then again, the X-Lines X21 saver is only £6.30, so it's actually more expensive to get a return than it is for a day ticket