(27 Mar 2022, 12:13 pm)busmanT wrote Looking at the successful bids they all seem to be based around the conversion of a significant part of a single town network to zero emission buses - Blackpool, Oxford, Rotherham, Bradford, Harrogate etc. - whereas the North East bid (I don't think that governance is an issue is this case) was about bits converted to electric here, there and almost everywhere. 

Previous funding has enabled Go North East to get the 9 for 53/54 and the next 9 for ??? (Q3 perhaps, as now it's been butchered it only needs 8 buses).

As with all things with transport in the NE there was no clear integration - upgrade of routes that frankly could probably pay for themselves over time.

I mean, NECA  is led by a former British Gas engineer and Tobyn Hughes leads Transport NE, a man so indescribably incompetent its unreal - that's not the thinking we need at the top