(Yesterday, 1:04 pm)V514DFT wrote The entire South Tyneside operation needs a rethink
I think the only service that hasn't changed in my 32 years of existence is the 7 and 8 apart from when the new bus station at SS Interchange opened
To be fair, I'd imagine South Tyneside is an absolute nightmare to work with as most people want to go to Sunderland which is covered by the E's or Newcastle which is covered by the Metro/X34
Beyond that it's just pensioners as no-one sane wants to go to South Shields nowadays and there's nothing else there.
You have got to give credit to Stagecoach for how much of a commercial network in the area still really. GNE deserve none at all, which is nothing new.
It's very much the same as across the Tyne in North Tyneside bar Arriva and GoNorthEast have both packed their bags really and the tax payer is funding a chunk of it, ie. the 6/7 etc in South Shields isn't too dissimilar to the 315/316/325/326 which was still every 15 minutes doing the local bits (https://www.northeastbuses.co.uk/bygone/...er2006.pdf for those who forgot). Now 3/4 of the route doesn't exist at all.