(09 Jan 2016, 11:47 am)Kuyoyo wrote Going via the A689 would be commerical suicide - Stagecoach's 36 provides the link along that corridor into Hartlepool and to Stockton and Middlesbrough, plus there's little or no residences along the Wolviston-Sedgefield secition. Unless you served Wynyard - which is a high area of car ownership - you'd be running at a lose. The NHS already provide a shuttle between Hartlepool and North Tees themselves plus there's plenty of buses between Stockton and North Tees so there's already plenty of choice.
A little competition didn't do anyone any harm. Stagecoach compete along the northbound corridors in Hartlepool, so unsure as to why anything would be different on a southbound route.
As for the lack of residences on the A689... It doesn't do the routes that serve the A19, the east of Boro A66/A1073, west of Boro A66 or the A171 any harm.