(18 Oct 2022, 3:57 pm)Storx wrote Is the 28/28B/29 contract actually Euro 6. It's been setup by County Durham and as far as I'm away they don't specify Euro ratings.Yes, it goes into Newcastle LEZ.
28/29 must be one of County Durham's busiest secured services - I often travel on it and there is a full load going into Gateshead.
(18 Oct 2022, 6:57 am)Storx wrote I know a lot of you are moaning about the prices going up but imo the biggest cock up was reducing the prices in the first place. It was a sign of desperation in a bad time which has totally backfired in the long term. It's very easy to drop prices but to then put them back up isn't so easy so it's not surprise there's been 3 rises recently.The price cuts (fare reductions) depended on passengers numbers more than doubling, which was never going to happen.
The price decrease done nothing and Arriva and Stagecoach's numbers are back upto a similar level including in evenings, the catch 22 is they still have the full revenue they had before Covid.
Price cuts aren't the answers to getting people on buses as Andreos always says, it's the fact buses don't go to where people want that's the problem. It's no surprise really the long routes, which has the biggest reduction which are getting wiped out quickly are the ones being cut. I wonder if some routes would be still more frequent ie. the X45/X46 if passengers were still paying more or the Sunderland local buses.