Looking at North Tyneside alone in the last 5 years, you can slate Arriva as much as you want but the damage one operator has done to the area outweighs the other 2 considerably. To just to give a quick summary to prove my point.
Stagecoach
- Extended 1 to Cobalt
- Extended 22 to Cobalt
- New 22X to Cobalt
- New buses 39/40/62/63
- Reduced service 18 from Forest Hall
- Reduced 1 from Four Lane Ends
- All evening and Sunday services ran by Stagecoach
- Extended 306 to Whitley
- Extended 51A to Holystone
- No new buses
- No reductions bar a few very late evening services.
- All evening and Sunday services ran by Arriva
- Repainted some panels and changed seat covers on B9TL's
- Retrimmed Quaylinks
- Few extra evening 19 services to Cramlington
- Reduced 309/310 to every 20 minutes
- Reduced 1 to every 20 minutes
- Lost links from Gateshead and beyond from Coast Road and Battle Hill (58)
- Downgraded the buses on 11/41/42
- No new buses that are still here
- Butchered the 40/41 in half
- Scrapped half of the 42 (tax payers now paying for it).
- Most evening and Sunday services paid by the tax payer and not ran by GNE