(12 Feb 2020, 9:15 am)Storx wrote If this is true, guessing another bus route in North Tyneside is going subsidised. I don't know how some on here can say competition for the buses is a good thing. One of the few areas which has competition (N Tyneside) is pretty much nearly all subsidised nowadays at some point and tbh the network is a mess mostly. Hopeless W buses which go nowhere. Numerous buses going around estates but not linking to actual places you want to be at (Morrisons / Tesco (Norham Road) / Silverlink). It really needs a radical change but who does it as GNE and Arriva are both clearly disinterested in the area and Nexus buses are never changed.

It doesn't have anything to do with competition, it's the lack of passengers on those routes.
If there was competition on those routes, there would be no need to subsidise them as the competitor would take over when one of them drops out.

Without knowing too much about the routes around that area, I will agree with what you said about the services not going anywhere useful. It seem to me like all these estate routes are just being tacked on to other similar routes rather than being integrated into ones that visit actual places.