(12 Dec 2024, 4:48 pm)busmanT wrote Metro zones are designed to maximise Metro revenue (hence the small central zone) and wouldn't necessarily work for bus where journey patterns are different.
To be fair they'd work quite well really. Everything is pretty much geared towards Newcastle anyway especially North of Tyne and Gateshead / Derwentside anyway since you pretty much can't cross the water anywhere bar some infrequent services.
When you get down Durham area because of where Durham is the zones are going to start bending around Durham anyway and down Bishop area the Tees Valley border comes in anyway. Plus we're subsidising a £4 ticket there anyway regardless currently.
Right now the system is just flawed because someone from West Auckland can get a return to Newcastle for £5 but someone from the estates in Washington is forking out £6 because they need to change. That's broken imo.