(18 May 2019, 9:04 am)Andreos1 wrote I think we all said the H1 would fail. Surprised its lasted that long.
Its now left to the taxpayer to pick up the gap left by commercial decisions that haven't worked.
I can't remember the exact date the 238 was introduced on a commercial basis, but I'm pretty sure it was well before January last year.
May 2016 or 2017 perhaps? Can vaguely remember using one of the last (if not the last) 79/79a runs.
From ticketing analysis, I believe there was only a few people a week who used it to go to the hospital. The H1 was introduced because of the uproar from residents.
However are you going to run a service through a low catchment area opposed to an area with more passengers?
If people dont use the service then it's obvious that they will re-route to an area that will. Same reason the old M3 route was removed due to low numbers between heworth road and concord.
When I used to live in burnopfield and travelled to Washington on a Sunday, I wished they would merge the X43 and X88 so I didn't have to change buses to get to washy. Doubt they would create that service just for me......