(17 Oct 2022, 3:09 pm)Andreos1 wrote Should have lived in the red zone all this time.
It's been cheaper to drive and park for the best part of 20 years.

Prior to the 2006 changes, there was only one winner. A series of route axing and fares increases since and the car has been the winner ever since

And since they axed the Washington Day and Weekly tickets, it now costs more to get around Washington, than it does to get around the whole of Newcastle and North Tyneside. Or the whole of South Tyneside.

A cynic would point out that the areas with competition, i.e. Newcastle and North Tyneside, Sunderland Central and South Tyneside, have only received half the increase anyone else has. Nil increases for Sunderland Central on the Weekly and Monthly tickets, so it looks like the rest of us are taking the brunt of that instead.