(17 Dec 2022, 7:11 pm)Malarkey wrote Just need Go North East, Stagecoach, Arriva, Independent Operators, Nexus and Local Councils to sit around a table and get rid of the duplication along various corridors in the region to bring about a more stabilised network of services as lot of them could be merged into others offering alternative links for local communities which would go along way in solving this "Driver Shortage" situation.

I'm not sure it would be in the best interests of GNE that mind.

Coast Road, 306/308 are primary routes - 309/310/311 out.
Wallsend, 22 primary route - 1 out.
Gosforth, 43/44/45 primary routes - Q3 out.
Sunderland to West Seaham / Peterlee, 22/23 primary routes - 61 out.
Durham to Bishop Auckland, 6 primary route - X21 out.
Sunderland to Pennywell, 20 primary route, 39/39A out.

GoNorthEast are generally the nuisance operator in terms of duplicating things.

I'm not saying none of those routes should exist but the sake of removing all duplication then those would have to go. In fact I can't think of any where the other 2 are the nuisance tbh other than maybe the X12 between Durham and Newcastle but again it has its purpose.