When I was in school, I maybe used the scholars the scholars service a few times, and the rest of the time I used the commercial service that went the same route bar going down the hill to the school.
The main reason was because the buses put on the scholars service were awful, they were old, loud, leaky, unreliable, freezing in the winter. And if I'm being honest, if there wasn't a commercial service that went to the school, I probably would have refused to travel by bus!
I mean, I am a bit of a snob when it comes to which buses I get on, I will wait an extra half an hour to wait for a StreetDeck on the X21 rather than get an OmniDekka or whatever other bus they've dragged out the scrap heap to put on the X21 today.
And honestly, it's not like I need to travel by bus, I could easily afford to travel by car, and if they hadn't upgraded the X21 I would probably have a car, and I probably would have ruled out Bishop Auckland as a place to look for a house!
