(09 Jun 2014, 2:14 pm)Dan wrote Maybe they shouldn't, but this happens up and down the country - regardless of what our opinions may be on the matter.

If Stagecoach North East and Go North East have approached Nexus in the past for Go North East tickets to be accepted on the evening variation of the service, I have got nothing to complain about. The fact of the matter is that it does not happen on service 39, but there is evidence of it happening elsewhere in the North East, which would lead to the assumption that the respective operators have not approached Nexus about the matter.
As such, whilst the passenger inconvenience may ultimately be due to Go North East deciding that the service is not commercially viable, Stagecoach North East (or Nexus, if GNE and SNE did approach them about it) are also partly to blame.

Taxpayers are going to be footing the bill in some way or another regardless, so I really don't see why it would be such an issue to provide greater passenger convenience...

As I say, they may have held discussions at a high level and were unable to provide enough reassurance that audit requirements would be met.
Extrapolation could make the whole thing totally unviable.

If the daytime operator was to put in a bid that resulted in a higher subsidy than a different operator, then I have no argument in what Nexus are doing.