(4 hours ago)deanmachine wrote Yeah, I don't think long distance routes should be at such a discount. It's more the people going from Seaham to Sunderland or somewhere else quite short distance that are going to be paying 50p more than the equivalent route in those other two mayoral areas.
Yeah agreed, personally I wish we'd just expand the Metro Zones A - E (new zone) to the whole region and charge £2 for one zone, plus 30p for extra zone after that.
Like imo if they were the zones, as it's probably where it would be everything would be fair.
Like:
Ashington to Newcastle: £2.90
Consett to Newcastle: £2.90
Sunderland / South Shields to Newcastle: £2.60
Seaham to Sunderland: £2.30
Cramlington to Newcastle: £2.60
Berwick to Newcastle: £3.20
Washington to Newcastle: £2.60
They're all fair prices imo and reasonable fares as the size of region would make it unreasomable to be £2 throughout.