(26 Mar 2023, 9:30 pm)Andreos1 wrote I'm not sure that's really the case though. How many buses are needed between Brotton and Loftus for example? You've already got the frequent X4 and 5. Any need for the 1 & 2?
There's going to be people making local trips between Lingdale or Boosbeck and Skelton. Are they additional punters to the ones already using the X3 or will they just spread the load even thinner than it is already?
There's the mention of the connections with the train in Saltburn. Other than with the likes Moorsholm or Liverton Mines, the majority are already connected to the rail network already (even if you exclude Teesflex).
Wouldn't the funds have been better used extending existing services to the hospital and Asda?
It's not as if it would have been any more expensive than tendering out these services (and associated dead mileage) to SNE.
I'm all for improving public transport, but I can't see anything other than a colossal waste of funds here.
I mentioned the other week that the P&R site at Steel House might be offered out to SNE as some sort of sweetener after the Teesflex will it stay/will it go fiasco.
Can't help thinking the same has been done here...
Yeah agreed totally with this. Personally I'd rather they just worked with Arriva and extended the X3/X3A to form a loop doing basically the 1/2. It offers the exact same thing, the only difference is the whole thing could be hourly rather than every 2 hours using the same resources and people from Lingdale would have to go the long way round to the hospital for the once or twice a year they need that.
Not a big fan of tax payers money being spent on things like connecting an ASDA when most people have alternatives in Guisborough and like you said just takes fares from commercial operators especially when it's been said on here the 5/5A haven't recovered well as it is.
The Saltburn -> Hospital -> ASDA -> Skelton -> Lingdale is bloody confusing aswell. Talking about doubling back on yourself or that's how I believe it goes as it's not clear at all.