It’s time to get bold about buses

It’s time to get bold about buses

Transport underpins everything we do. It’s how we get food into the shops. How we get to work. It’s how we get to see our loved ones. I recall talking to an 18-year-old from Blyth who’d been offered a job in Team Valley in Gateshead, but had to turn it down because he couldn’t get there on public transport. Car insurance would have cost him £3000. We used to have pretty good networks. In Tyne & Wear, they were fully integrated with the Metro sys…