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£15m funding for revamp to region
The Journal
|February 21, 2026
THE North East mayor has announced almost £15 million worth of funding to upgrade hundreds of bus stops, carry out a major revamp of two busy city roads, and modernise a County Durham bus station.
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Plans unveiled by Kim McGuinness on Thursday include enhancements to 325 bus stops across Sunderland, Gateshead, South Tyneside and North Tyneside.
£7.1 million will be used on measures including the replacement of brick, stone and metal shelters dating back to the 1970s, as well as new lighting, seats, timetable information, wider pavements, and raised kerbs.
Ms McGuinness, who has previously backed the installation of hundreds of new bus shelters in villages and towns across County Durham, said: "I promised in my manifesto we would put in new bus shelters in streets and neighbourhoods right across the region, and now we're going to do that in places like Winlaton and Birtley, Dudley, Doxford and Hebburn."
This story is from the February 21, 2026 edition of The Journal.
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