(Yesterday, 12:37 am)DaveFromUpNorth wrote This will sound stupid as an idea  however  in my head a Boxing Day ticket should be made £4.00 however available all day on any mode of transport

Within the core Newcastle and Gateshead area  aka the metro system route....

Create special short local services  which connects to metro stations and then allow the metro to take the blunt of the core services....

FOR EXAMPLE

A  bus service could do a Kenton loop  (10/11  6/7)  short 30 min loop to Regent Centre...

Another service could have a short loop to Great park and loop back to Regent Centre 

Create the Xservices to Northumberland to curtail at Regent Centre to save time 

By forcing passengers onto the metro we make useful use of buses of time and effort

Afterall they are already subsidised so a £4  allday ticket is to ease the strain as the metro already operates on a fixed cost

Key Metro Stations hub like

Kingston Park
Regent Centre
Four Lane Ends
Whitley Bay
North Shields
Wallsend
Byker
Heworth

Create a forceful short service but you must connect with the metro to continue key journeys

Technically you could have one bus do a few short local loop services to a metro station as oppose to having them commuting into the city centre

You could technically have the 308 operating a Blyth to whitley bay metro as an example

I get what you're saying but not sure it's the best idea.

Personally I'd make special boxing day routes and try and serve more areas. Yet again in Northumberland we're funding 4 BPH between Blyth/Cramlington and Newcastle on the same corridor. Yet if you lived anywhere else in the same towns or nearby villages/towns you've got the square route of f'all. 

Do we really need to be funding the 43 AND X10/X11...? Personally I wouldn't be running the X10/X11, at all, and just extend the 43 to Blyth via the X10/X11 route.

That money then being used to subsidise stuff like the 2 and 57A instead because weirdly enough not everyone wants to go to Newcastle and would give everywhere some form of service, with the ability to change onto other services/Metro if they do need to go to Newcastle. 

Right now the vast majority of Blyth, Cramlington and Seaton Valley have zero service.