Seems like GNE have won an award for...

The Buses for Pleasure sponsored by @CBWtweets SILVER WINNER is....
Toon Tour, Seasider X11 and the X75, @gonortheast

The Marketing sponsored by Coach & Bus 23 ( @DiversifiedUK ) GOLD WINNER Jobs with Real Purpose,@gonortheast CONGRATULATIONS

The Bus and the Community sponsored by @yourHeathrow SILVER WINNER @gonortheast CONGRATULATIONS! 

The Culture Change SILVER WINNER@gonortheast CONGRATULATIONS!  #BusWinners22 #MadeIt #UKBA

Other companies, Preston Bus, Stagecoach Preston, Diamond Bus NW, Abellio London, TransDev, Arriva London, Stagecoach Areas, Uno. 

All won awards, from what I saw on Twitter ArrivaNE nor SCNE won any awards

I'm not sure what's more reliable, GNE's service or this website.

Seems to be down more than it's up these past few days!

Customers are advised of upcoming changes to some fares within County Durham, Tyne & Wear and Northumberland areas, with effect from Sunday 20th November.

Our previous fare increase in the Northumberland, Tyne & Wear and County Durham areas was in January 2022 and was a conservative increase, much lower than the growing CPI rate at the time, with the expectation that Arriva could minimise the level of cost increase passing on to our customers. Regretfully, since then, costs such as fuel and utilities have continued to increase and as a result the difficult decision has been taken to undertake this additional fare revision.

Adult and Child single fares will increase between 10p and 70p, along with return tickets increasing between 20p and 80p. Most existing zonal products will also see an increase, of which some of these were previously frozen in price back in January, details are shown in the table below.

Young Persons/Student Saver zonal tickets will not change, neither will any fares or zonal products within Tees Valley and North Yorkshire.



https://www.arrivabus.co.uk/latest-news/...I33pY1EmnQ

Appears that (via LinkedIn), Go North East have taken on two ex-Arriva managers into roles called 'Business Improvement Managers'.

Clearly shows the business is struggling, given the requirement for roles like this, but more to the point, is Nigel Feetham pulling in faces he wants/trusts over existing people in the business? Hopefully not.

I'm travelling on 24120 this morning on the 71 service, it sounds a good solid reliable vehicle but I have noticed some subtle differences compared to standard E300s,

 namely the seats are a lot taller similar to the ones that were on the Scania omnilinks, and there is an extra emergency exit in the roof about 3/4 of the way back. Plus the first two sets of saloon lights are blue coloured which is a feature I have noticed on a lot of Scottish buses and the other ex Carlisle E300s.

Does anybody know why these vehicles are different to native North east examples?

Stagecoach North East interworking suggestions

Arriva North East interworking suggestions

Go North East interworking suggestions

If a local authority or a PTE partially subsidises a route (i.e a few late evening journeys) but not a full on tender, can they dictate what times they run at as a condition of the subsidy?

Not sure if its part of a previous bid, so made a new thread... please merge if it is!


Just seen this on the Stagecoach North East Twitter:


We are proud to support the North East’s Transport Decarbonisation Levelling Up Fund bid.
If successful, £19.5m in funding will boost #zerocarbon transport options for local people - both by investing in new electric buses ? and EV chargers ⚡ #decarbNE #sustainabletransport


https://twitter.com/StagecoachNE/status/...0202815488



Not sure if its part of a previous bid, so made a new thread... please merge if it is!