(07 Jan 2015, 8:21 pm)Tom wrote Is it not?
I thought it was fully funded. 

The 'Go Smarter' programme appears to be funded by the North East Combined Authority, and Go North East appears to be the beneficiary of a sum of money most months. See details of NECA's expenditure on attached Excel documents:




The funding varies by month; in August, no funding was given to Go North East as part of the Go Smarter programme.

This has been discussed a number of times before. Whilst I am fairly sure that it isn't fully secured, there is some funding given to support the Cramlington - Ashington section of the route, providing links to the employment sites on the fully commercial Cramlington - North Shields section of route.