(15 Jan 2022, 5:46 pm)Train8261 wrote People really need to forget the North Tyneside mini bus network. It's dead. Nobody cares about it anymore. Nexus won't touch it. Gne won't touch it. Gct will but don't understand why

They're all subsidised the local services in North Tyneside mostly.

Imo Nexus and local bus companies really need to sit down and plan something with them long term even franchising the lot on a longer basis and try and create some form of low budget network.

The 11, 11 (SNE), 12, 18, 19, 32/32A, 33, 41, 42/42A, 51/51A, 333, 335, 59, W1, W3 and the rest I've no doubt missed all should be part of it as they're not working currently and the yearly contracts going to whoever bids lowest doesn't help them neither. 

They'll never be profitable by any means but they could at least be useful and actually exist in the real world as half of them are impossible to find timetables online pretty much or have multiple operators with different ticket rules etc.