In a scheme that might sound familiar to some, Go North East (GNE) has launched a ‘Bus Out to Help Out’ offer to encourage travellers onto public transport to support local restaurants and pubs.
The initiative allows two persons to travel for the price of one when buying GNE’s £3.50 evening ticket after 7pm. Four persons can travel for £6.50 with a group ticket.
Evening services will be ramped up accordingly, and are expected to be run at pre-pandemic levels.
Go North East Managing Director, Martijn Gilbert, says: “It’s great to see that the Government’s ‘Eat Out to Help Out’ initiative has been so popular and we want to also help out by introducing an offer of our own that supports the economy of our towns and cities.
“By introducing this buy one get one free initiative and increasing our evening services back to 100%, we hope that it will help encourage people to get out and about on an evening, let us do the driving and help support their local restaurants and pubs.”
