(06 May 2023, 6:58 pm)nova347 Its Saturday and nothing has been said on GNE about the £1 fare.

(07 May 2023, 5:49 am)Dan The Transport North East £1 fare is available to purchase on Arriva, Go North East and Stagecoach buses, but you've only highlighted the lack of promotion from Go North East, when in fact, no operator has openly promoted this.

Both Go North East (https://www.gonortheast.co.uk/TNE-1-pound) and Stagecoach (https://www.stagecoachbus.com/service-updates/serviceupdatesarticle?SituationId=ID-04/05/2023-12:31:50:497) have put something on their websites about this, but the latter is pretty well hidden.

The fact that this is Transport North East's fare suggests they will be the ones leading the marketing and communications, and they too haven't put anything on their website or social media channels recently. It suggests that the operators are needing to wait for Transport North East before putting our their own communications.

(07 May 2023, 5:49 am)Dan The Transport North East £1 fare is available to purchase on Arriva, Go North East and Stagecoach buses, but you've only highlighted the lack of promotion from Go North East, when in fact, no operator has openly promoted this.

Both Go North East (https://www.gonortheast.co.uk/TNE-1-pound) and Stagecoach (https://www.stagecoachbus.com/service-updates/serviceupdatesarticle?SituationId=ID-04/05/2023-12:31:50:497) have put something on their websites about this, but the latter is pretty well hidden.

The fact that this is Transport North East's fare suggests they will be the ones leading the marketing and communications, and they too haven't put anything on their website or social media channels recently. It suggests that the operators are needing to wait for Transport North East before putting our their own communications.

(07 May 2023, 10:52 am)nova347 Is only the single tickets avaiable, and not the day ones yet?

(07 May 2023, 5:49 am)Dan The Transport North East £1 fare is available to purchase on Arriva, Go North East and Stagecoach buses, but you've only highlighted the lack of promotion from Go North East, when in fact, no operator has openly promoted this.

Both Go North East (https://www.gonortheast.co.uk/TNE-1-pound) and Stagecoach (https://www.stagecoachbus.com/service-updates/serviceupdatesarticle?SituationId=ID-04/05/2023-12:31:50:497) have put something on their websites about this, but the latter is pretty well hidden.

The fact that this is Transport North East's fare suggests they will be the ones leading the marketing and communications, and they too haven't put anything on their website or social media channels recently. It suggests that the operators are needing to wait for Transport North East before putting our their own communications. 

(07 May 2023, 10:52 am)nova347 Is only the single tickets avaiable, and not the day ones yet?

(07 May 2023, 11:25 am)Andreos1 Nowt like a bit of joined up, effective partnership work is there? 
Operators and other agencies, working together in a proactive manner, ensuring a seamless roll-out...

(06 May 2023, 7:26 pm)DeltaMan Like the Coast Road partnership, they (TNE/NEXUS/operators) have done all the preliminary stuff and not bothered to tell the public in a unified voice. The partnership is a farce.

(07 May 2023, 2:10 pm)Adrian I mean if it's Transport North East's fare, the normal practice would be for them to put a press release out with an embargo date on it. The lack of an article on their own website would suggest they haven't done this?

Half arsed, as usual, when Nexus are involved.

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(07 May 2023, 8:00 pm)Storx Well apart from the part where Arriva is outright ignoring the part where it says they'll allocate Double Deckers on all boards. There's at least 2 boards on the 306/308 being allocated single deckers daily, especially the 6.30 to Newcastle on the 306.

Not that I care mind, as I'd rather they were there than on the Blyth expresses.

(08 May 2023, 10:06 am)Busu284 Hahahahahahahahahahaha. Funny joke. Say the same about gne. They have been Allocation StreetLite to the 307/309. Can't wait for Dan to come defend here with some excuse of "we have not manu spare decekrs at Percy " oh I do do do wonder why. What's it with everyone defensive of gne yet when it comes to stagecoach & arriva and any other company for that matter. Its always they have done bad

(08 May 2023, 10:36 am)Dan Right on cue, Dan arrives.

There have been very few instances of single-decks being allocated to services 307/309.

This is in stark contrast to Arriva on services 306/308, which have been allocated single-decks on a daily (or near daily) basis.

I think you will find Storx is normally the last person to defend Go North East, and is possibly more critical of Go North East than other operators. Your suggestion that he (and others) are defensive of GNE and not Arriva or Stagecoach is simply incorrect.


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(07 May 2023, 5:49 am)Dan The Transport North East £1 fare is available to purchase on Arriva, Go North East and Stagecoach buses, but you've only highlighted the lack of promotion from Go North East, when in fact, no operator has openly promoted this.

Both Go North East (https://www.gonortheast.co.uk/TNE-1-pound) and Stagecoach (https://www.stagecoachbus.com/service-updates/serviceupdatesarticle?SituationId=ID-04/05/2023-12:31:50:497) have put something on their websites about this, but the latter is pretty well hidden.

The fact that this is Transport North East's fare suggests they will be the ones leading the marketing and communications, and they too haven't put anything on their website or social media channels recently. It suggests that the operators are needing to wait for Transport North East before putting our their own communications.

(17 May 2023, 12:33 am)markydh As was always inevitable, the £2 cap on single fares has been extended to 31st October. It will then increase to £2.50 for a further 12 months, which I suspect means we can expect a General Election before the end of October 2024.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-65616182

(17 May 2023, 8:48 am)Adrian I'm confident they'll call the General Election in May 2024, as they'll want to get back to the Springtime election periods.

As for this fare, and whilst it's good for (some!) customers, it's further down the rabbit hole we go. To run something on a temporary basis, for what will be almost two years at the current point of expiry, creates operators a big problem in my opinion.

If this doesn't get extended beyond that point, or there isn't a better fares formula brought in beforehand, then fares will skyrocket for customers overnight. Whilst I'm sure the Government of the day will step back and wash their hands of it, the operators and local authorities will be left to pick up the pieces.