(30 Jul 2020, 9:11 pm)Andreos1 wrote It would be interesting to compare the prices in North Tyneside and Sunderland to those areas where there is a monopoly. 

Then there's the 'raw meat' story from a few years back http://www.passengertransport.co.uk/2011...-raw-meat/

Can remember the raw meat stuff very well, didn't realise it was so long ago though, how times flies.

They're slightly cheaper in North Tyneside I believe I know that GNE have the North Tyne tickets for £4.

But it's a bit pointless when you don't have a service. The area below in red either don't have a service to Newcastle at all, it's only hourly or it takes over an hour which is unacceptable really. Yet Rake Lane and the Coast north of Whitley has 7 buses an hour... You can get a bus from Durham to Newcastle quicker than Marden to Newcastle and you can't even change to the 306/308/309/310 without travelling in the wrong direction for 15 minutes. If you took the Metro out and went buses only it would be even worse.

I don't believe there's anywhere with a Monopoly with a service that bad.