(4 hours ago)Storx wrote Agreed to be honest, mind I don't think it should be a flat rate though as stuff like Berwick to Newcastle should be £3.

I'd much rather see further discounts for reasonable fares ie. Blyth to Cramlington or whatever. All the fares in Manchester and West Yorkshire being fair for £2 imo.

Yeah, I don't think long distance routes should be at such a discount. It's more the people going from Seaham to Sunderland or somewhere else quite short distance that are going to be paying 50p more than the equivalent route in those other two mayoral areas.

(5 hours ago)deanmachine wrote Personally, I don't think it's good enough, especially with Manchester and West Yorkshire keeping the £2 gap, why should we be disadvantaged?

There's a lot more work needs doing up here compared to Manchester and West Yorkshire. If they'd kept it at £2 here, that's a lot of other priorities that disappear very quickly because they can't afford them. Personally I think this is the right move.

(6 hours ago)Chris 1 wrote Ah of course, forgot about that!

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Snap.  I haven't read the detail so not sure where the funding is coming from?  If BSIP, I don't think it's money well spent.

£6million of the funding is coming from the Taxpayer funded BSIP.

Unsure on the balance.

(2 hours ago)deanmachine wrote Yeah, I don't think long distance routes should be at such a discount. It's more the people going from Seaham to Sunderland or somewhere else quite short distance that are going to be paying 50p more than the equivalent route in those other two mayoral areas.

Yeah agreed, personally I wish we'd just expand the Metro Zones A - E (new zone) to the whole region and charge £2 for one zone, plus 30p for extra zone after that.



Like imo if they were the zones, as it's probably where it would be everything would be fair.

Like:
Ashington to Newcastle: £2.90
Consett to Newcastle: £2.90
Sunderland / South Shields to Newcastle: £2.60
Seaham to Sunderland: £2.30
Cramlington to Newcastle: £2.60
Berwick to Newcastle: £3.20
Washington to Newcastle: £2.60

They're all fair prices imo and reasonable fares as the size of region would make it unreasomable to be £2 throughout.

(9 hours ago)Chris 1 wrote Wasn't sure where to put this, but confirmation Kim is subsidising the £3 cap next year so it's £2.50:

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/nor...d-30561260

You couldn't make it up. Labour Govt hiking it by £1 then a Labour Mayor celebrating that us lucky people are getting half of it back...

(4 hours ago)Storx wrote Agreed to be honest, mind I don't think it should be a flat rate though as stuff like Berwick to Newcastle should be £3.

I'd much rather see further discounts for reasonable fares ie. Blyth to Cramlington or whatever. All the fares in Manchester and West Yorkshire being fair for £2 imo.

Why? Per your example, I'd surprised if anyone used the service for the full route Berwick to Newcastle anyway. It'd take you most of the day to travel there and back. 

In an ideal world, the train services would be included in the multi-modal tickets, as that's a more appropriate choice for the journey.

Something like the Tyne Tees X10 is a bit different, but there's no reason the cap shouldn't still apply there. The whole point is to try and encourage modal shift. The commercial fare regime was that good at that, that the service has been decimated in recent times...

One capped fare is simple.