(03 Sep 2023, 11:34 pm)DaveFromUpNorth wrote Creating bus hub interchanges etc is a scam...

Nexus knows this and it is why they milked the pot

We have cllrs elected locally by residents


Some cllrs get out onto committees to approve white elephants

Nexus proposes white elephants 

It is approved to build

Bus stations make a profit and the money is hidden within Nexus

Sunderland interchange is a classic example

No stagecoach goes into the bus station... why? Because every bus that enters the station is charged 60p-80p  for the pleasure

Same as Haymarket and Eldon Sqaure and every other bus station...


And you wonder why Stagecoach oftens opts to using stops outside of bus station due to  operational issues" or altering routes to avoid  bus stations like 317  for example...

Now... as an example

Haymarket bus station ...

How many buses depart an hour  and times that by 70p as a ball point average...

Mitigate that with the cost of Nexus manager to run the site (goes home after 5pm) we often see arriva staff managing the site not Nexus...

Combine the income with the rent of Greggs Arriva pub M&S

And general expenses is a Nexus employee working 9-5 and electric for the lights  (bins are local council)

There is a reason bus stations are built....and that is to claim  poverty.

You think M&S rent their Newcastle Northumberland St store from Nexus?

As for Stagecoach mostly not using bus stations, isn’t this at least in Newcastle because they operate mostly cross-city services. And most of their services that do terminate in the city centre (x47, x87, x88, 685) do so at a bus station. 
Like wise most of Go North East and Arriva services terminate in the city centre, so many do so in a bus station where people get off the bus straight into the indoors.