(05 Jan 2020, 9:18 pm)deanmachine wrote Might stop a bit of the confusion with us GNE drivers when kids get on with £1 thinking it's the same as Stagecoach. Or maybe it won't, because kids.It was £1 for kids on GNE until September so it's an easy mistake to make.
(05 Jan 2020, 10:37 pm)Storx wrote Depends on the journey I've found for that. Arriva have fare zones which are roughly every three or four bus stops whereas GNE have zones which cover miles so if you live at the start of the zone it's expensive but live at the end of it then it's cheaper.Arriva are definitely cheaper around Durham city. It used to be that it was cheaper to buy Arriva weekly/monthly tickets than GNE to get to Spenny, too, though the GNE zones change may have fixed that as an ANE durham district ticket has become more pricey as that area has expanded and GNE all zones isn't much more, now. It's still cheaper to get to Newcastle and back from durham on ANE but I've only ever done that once. I set out to do that another time and the X12 didn't even show up, so I just got the next Angel and a Castles daysaver. I'd rather pay a pound odd more for a guarantee that I don't have to wait an hour for a bus to show up.
I believe the 21 zones from Newcastle are Newcastle through to Harlow Green (£1.70) then there all the way through to Barley Moor (£3.10) then to Plawsworth (£3.60) then Durham (£4.60). So if you got on at Harlow Green it'll be quite cheap get on the next bus stop the Coach and Horses it's £3.10 and a rip off whereas Arriva will have a fare to The Cannon, Harlow Green, Coach and Horses, Birtley (£2.60'ish I believe), Barley Moor etc.
Arriva have an invisible boundary tax where if you cross the Tyne and Wear / Northumberland boundary there's a massive fare jump for no reason at all however. I know at one point it was cheaper to buy a single from Seghill to Annitsford then a single from there to Newcastle than it was to buy a single from Seghill to Newcastle on the X7.