(10 Sep 2021, 8:26 pm)col87 wrote I know what your saying but a better service could actually bring more people onto the bus. They no reason why they couldn’t at least for example trial the 1 Between High Tunstall - Seaton on a evening. I have had this argument with the council but the council don’t exactly care I asked them about helping out last month just got a load of excuses.  I know when it was Hartlepool Transport they used profits from the more popular routes to fund less popular ones instead we have Stagecoach using any profits mostly for shareholders and as you know Hartlepool is probably the least cared about depot Stagecoach North East have with most things done from Sunderland. If services where there am sure people would use them and the E200 midi buses would be more than enough they could even use one of the tees flex buses for something like the old 15 would be no harm in at least trailing more evening services.

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The reason the 55 never worked was it was two long a journey and no good as a local service. The 24/58 only serve the Dyke House area of town so still not exactly good if you live in Seaton or Rift House.  I not sure anyone can just start a company up either and do commercial services in the town or else someone may well have tried by now the closest was Tees Valley Coach Travel but that again was an out of town service and even then they did not exactly go head to head with Stagecoach and I no some plans they had for town services never happened.