Tag: buses
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Have your say on Bus Franchising Scheme
Public transport campaigners are urging people across the North East to respond positively to the consultation on bus reform launched in the region today. The North East Public Transport Users Group (NEPTUG) say the planned franchising arrangement presents the biggest opportunity for the transformation of public transport since the deregulation of bus services in 1986.…
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Let there be light, in Teams, Gateshead!
In a previous newsletter we covered a North East bus user who had been reporting broken bus shelter lights in Teams, Gateshead, for several years but to no avail. During the hours of darkness the bus shelters were uninviting and it was difficult to read the timetables.Overgrown and low hanging tree branches were also obstructing…