(22 Aug 2022, 3:01 pm)OrangeArrow49 wrote Can Metro tickets be purchased on the buses or just at the stations?

Metro Tickets will be available onboard due to the stations being closed for other work taking place.

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(22 Aug 2022, 3:24 pm)Storx wrote It would be much better to do a Fellgate -> Simonside -> Tyne Dock -> Chichester -> South Shields service instead imo which would only take 40 minutes or so from South Shields to Newcastle, rather than sitting on a bus meandering around everywhere especially for those at Tyne Dock and Chi which don't have anything express at all and are both quite busy stations.

Thing is Heworth Interchange is capable of handling large exchanges of passengers between metro and bus (and vice versa) where as Fellgate station doesn't really have the facilities or the set up to handle the amount of traffic in various forms. As if it was from Fellgate, all the South Shields passengers would be boarding the Sunderland trains which can be busy enough as it is.

Granted people for Jarrow and South Shields may just jump on the first bus that comes whether it's a 900 or X900. Think between Heworth and Jarrow there isn't much time difference between the two unless the roads are dug up again which is more than likely. But between Jarrow and South Shields, the X900 doesn't have to double back on itself to service Simonside or go around the houses to service Tyne Dock or Chichester, just needs to head along the main road into South Shields.