(13 Jul 2026, 11:20 pm)tyresmoke wrote This is all great but like you say the X10 is only ~30% outside the NEMSA area … which means to continue running it would have to be an NEMSA franchised service - do they necessarily need an express to Teesside that mainly (not entirely but maybe 70% of the market) benefits Tees Valley residents travelling to Newcastle rather than the NEMSA residents that are paying towards it? They could truncate it at Peterlee, save a fair bit of cash and not worry 95% of the NEMSA users. 

This is one of the worries I have.

So basically it couldn’t be done then which potentially stops new services from outside the NEMSA  going into the area from being started. I really don’t know how this helps anyone at all and I don’t think it’s been thought through properly.  

In the example I used it seems it would be easier to just do weekly or twice weekly coach excursions instead and look at starting an express coach service to other areas instead.  I think this could potentially kill some of the independents rather then help them, look at Northstar taking a risk on new routes which they won’t be able to do and now potentially could lose them to Go North East who didn’t want to do some of them in the first place.