(13 Nov 2020, 10:42 am)busmanT wrote They tend not to remove them as any cost incurred is money that they don't need to spend.

Plus they never know when an operator is going to change/introduce a service over a particular route, so taking a stop/shelter out one week might mean it has to be put back 4 months later.

That's what I would have said as well, if it's not costing them anything in upkeep, it makes sense to just leave it as it is.

I'd be more interested in how much it costs to install the bus stops.

I know when GNE extended the X21 to Tindale, they started serving a stop on Greenfields Road that had been removed years ago, and after several months of the stop not having a sign Durham Council finally got round to reinstalling the stop, only for GNE to change the route of the X21 again a few months later so it ran straight down Proudfoot Drive and cut off the stop that had only just been installed.