It’s World Autism Awareness Week (29 March – 4 April), which is marked in the UK by the National Autistic Society, with tomorrow (2 April) being World Autism Awareness Day.
Go North East, the region’s largest bus operator, is launching a number of seasonal services to help give the region’s staycation market a boost, in addition to its normal local bus network which also offers some great days out connections across the region.
From Saturday 10 April, almost all Go North East services will be reintroduced to full levels of service in readiness for the reopening of non-essential retail and various leisure aspects from 12 April.
Here's your guide to our buses over the Easter weekend, and your chance to get the kids involved in decorating some of our buses.
Colleagues are wearing fancy dress, or casual clothing, and taking part in the 'Share a Smile' challenge.
Today (15 March) the Government has published Bus Back Better, the long-term National Bus Strategy for England outside London.
Today (Monday 8 March) is International Women’s Day and Go North East is celebrating the day by sharing the stories of some of its colleagues and joining in with this year’s theme of ‘Choose to Challenge’.
Go North East, the region’s largest bus company, is gearing up to get children back to school safely and securely from Monday 8 March.
Throughout February, colleagues at Go North East marked LGBT+ History Month with a whole host of engaging activities.
The new system, provided by digital solutions company Not Lost, enables customers to log their items online via the Go North East website whilst members of the Go North East team upload details and photographs of things that have been handed in.
The region’s largest bus operator, Go North East, is now working in partnership with Newcastle GP Services (NGPS) – the GP Federation for Newcastle – Newcastle City Council and community and voluntary sector partners to provide an outreach vaccination bus in the city.
Go North East has mobilised a large replacement bus service for the Tyne and Wear Metro, with the help of two local operators, whilst major works are carried out.
Around 175,000 journeys are made on Go North East bus services every day to travel around this wonderful region. Travelling to work or education, to visit friends and family, to have a night out, or to visit one of the region's many tourist and leisure attractions.
For over 100 years, Go North East has connected the region's towns and villages with the cities of Newcastle, Durham and Sunderland and currently operates across Northumberland, Tyne and Wear, County Durham and into Tees Valley.
Employing over 2,000 local people, with a fleet of almost 700 buses and coaches and an annual turnover of £100m, the company is the regional subsidiary of the Go-Ahead Group plc, one of the UK's leading providers of passenger transport.
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