In contrast to travelling on Go North East buses today, I found the Northstar vehicle I travelled on to be clean and presentable with a friendly driver who was conversing with passengers about the weather and informing them about the diversion around Nissan currently in place.

The seats were a bit hard and the middle door was rattling like a smackhead who hasn't had their hit for a couple of days but, overall, an above average experience, which is quite high praise considering the low bar we have for public transport in the region.