(26 Mar 2023, 10:48 pm)Storx wrote 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.

It's the total lack of joined up thinking between TVCA, ANE and to a lesser extent, SNE.

The existing network is there and can be adapted - very easily.
Without even getting Teesflex or this 1 & 2 involved.

If Teesflex (or an equivalent) is needed after the X3/X4/5/28 etc are adapted to meet the needs of the natives and there's no scope for the likes of the Coatham 18, then it's the chance for the Teesflex to step up and fill the gaps.

As it stands, that one bus stop at Asda is going to be as busy as Eldon Square (well not quite, but you get the gist) with a Teesflex Merc two, ANE Temsa and SNE E200 all vying for space.
Whilst Brotton High Street is going to be reminiscent of Stockton High Street in the 1980s and punters in Boosbeck have to toss a coin to see if which bus they fancy down to the Co-op in Skelton.