(21 Nov 2019, 9:25 pm)Storx wrote To be fair, it's more with regulating buses and keeping them on time rather than buses being broken down. At least it is at Blyth and Haymarket anyway. Imagine it's the same in Darlington, Durham and Middlesbrough. Personally I'd rather have a bus on time rather than the correct allocation as I know most other people would.
 
GNE get around it by usually terminating buses short either at the Metro Centre and/or Gateshead which imo is worse from a passenger perspective. 

Particularly if you're paying for your ticket and when you take in to account the wide variety of stops/terminating points in Newcastle.
Far from ideal.