(04 Aug 2021, 11:28 am)6049 wrote Because it's designed to show the routes of the services as well as the boundaries. It wouldn't be practical to display all the colours going exactly into Newcastle and all the services on the map which serve Gateshead then serve Newcastle as the two major hubs. You'd have about 20 different coloured lines crossing the Tyne between the two hub circles which wouldn't fit or would look odd.

I've said this time and again, it always seems to be the case where operators are damned if they do and damned if they don't. GNE are being proactive and trying to encourage more people to leave their cars at home, but because something isn't absolutely perfect they're being criticised.

Quite frankly, if someone buys a Gateshead Day Ticket and then finds themselves having to pay to come back across to Gateshead from Newcastle I have no sympathy. Given that the Purple Day ticket is still priced at £5.30, that still represents best value for money for anyone going to Newcastle. With the new pricing scheme, I'd guess there's only about 20/30p difference in the price to pay for a single back to Gateshead where your ticket would be valid anyway.

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All they needed to do was have the map the way they have it now.

And as I said before, that's how it was initially designed otherwise the '20' lines going across the river wouldn't have been there hidden underneath.

So, it was designed properly, then they stupidly decided to merge Newcastle and Gateshead, got called out on that design and went back to how it was to start with!