(14 May 2021, 4:29 pm)ne14ne1 wrote Great initiative by GNE. Let’s hope this temps people onto buses.
If Stagecoach and Arriva did the same & NE1 stopped the free parking in the city, we’d be laughing - although maybe it’s best keeping it a bit longer until things pick back up and get back to near-normal, then really push the message home that public transport is the solution.

You mean Silverlink, Metrocentre and Boldon when everyone goes there after 5pm instead...

This is going for people who want to into town and use a taxi or whatever on the return journey not those driving in or those on the drink to choose a bus home instead if they leave earlier. Different market altogther. Alive after 5 is one of the best things Newcastle ever done and made the place attractive after 5 which can't be said about Sunderland or Durham which are ghosts towns.