(15 Jan 2022, 7:45 pm)Storx wrote 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.

Are the Little Coasters subsidised during the day? The 51/51A isn’t subsidised all day either although I believe there was money put into the 51A from the builders of the new estates in East Benton or Holystone.