(10 Aug 2025, 9:50 pm)Shrek wrote Another thing that Nexus should take into account when giving out contracts imo. If it will mean a service gets cut, give it to somebody else. 

I get that Arriva will have made it cheaper by pulling that services, but it does show why franchising is popular with the public.

Aye can't disagree, mind I think it might be a Northumberland contract, seems to be the 448 looking at where the bus is going etc and it's just running dead upto Bedlington and dropping back in on the new 'extended' 43 boards. 

Mind not sure using your brand new electric buses when they turn up, on a school bus is exactly a great idea, especially the school at Bedlington Station which isn't exactly the most luxury school around - let's say.