(22 Apr 2023, 1:44 pm)tyresmoke wrote To be fair I was being a bit cheeky given Redcar are still helping Stockton out with drivers (and Whitby!).

Looking at the tracking 1433 was running about 15-20 late on the X4 on Thu evening though the X3s either side were both Temsas. It probably wasn’t helped by the X4 in front of it (1568) being pulled in Redcar due to being half hour late itself. That one restarted at Dormanstown heading back to Whitby.

This seems to be a regular occurrence due to various buses being in limp mode and the amount of hills on the X4 route.


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Taking all of that in to account (plus the ridiculous number of lights that's been on the X4 route recently - I've counted temp lights at Marske, Saltburn, Brotton plus two lots at Loftus), surely an effective control would more than pay for itself?
It's a quick win. 

Longer term, allocating an adequate engineering budget could make a huge difference.
Assuming they're wanting to keep punters and attract new ones.

Talking about attracting punters, we were driving through Sandsend during the Easter break and passed a Whitby bound Streetlite who was unable to stop because he was full. 
Left crowds of people (presumably tourists and day trippers) waiting for the next one. No idea if the one in front had ran or not. 
Unsure if the one behind was running.