If you regulary travel a short distance between two stops, one of which is outside Tyne & Wear, you could be saving money with an A2B Go'n'Save Bus Card. This gives you 7 or 28 days unlimited travel between your chosen two points on Go North East buses all day, every day.
A2B Go'n'Save Bus Cards are calculated using adult single fares and are available where this fare is 50p or above. For 7 days unlimited travel you pay 81/2 times your adult single fare, and for 28 days, 30 times this fare. to find out how much you could be saving, have a look at the table below
RE: Pricing
Another thing they used to do were A2B weekly and monthly tickets. There was quite a simple calculation to it, but there again, I don't think it'd agree with 'simplified fares'. Managed to dig some info out from the web archive:
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