(05 Sep 2021, 9:20 am)idiot wrote One of the things that gets me is that a 10 min journey costs £3.60 as your crossing boundaries.

Tyne and Wear boundary no doubt. It's because of the Transfare tickets I believe which pretty much caps what they can rip people off by in T&W. I know it used to be cheaper to get a single from Seghill to Annitsford then Annitsford to Newcastle than Seghill to Newcastle because of it.