A North East bus company has revealed another huge swathe of cuts that are set to hit passengers this summer.
Go North East has announced proposed changes to dozens of services across the region, which it expects to introduce in July. Routes in Newcastle and North Tyneside were already the subject of cutbacks earlier this year and now bus users in County Durham, Gateshead, Sunderland, South Tyneside, and parts of the Tyne Valley in Northumberland are set to have their services scaled back too.
It had been hoped that the decision to reduce more services would be put on hold until October, after the Government bowed to pressure to extend Covid emergency grant funding until then. But Go North East said on Monday that it was “at the point where it’s clear some services won’t recover to the point of being viable without changes or external support”.
