(05 Jun 2023, 12:41 pm)Andreos1 wrote I don't think it's anything more than being unable to replace life expired (or soon to be) vehicles whilst reducing overheads at the expense of revenue.

How else can a thriving, growing community such as Saltburn, with it's schools (that doesn't have scholars provision), beaches etc end up losing out?
Unless of course, the network isn't meeting the needs of the population or the people travelling for work or pleasure?

Throw in the over-flowing car-parks and expanding offer in Skelton and it's pretty obvious there's clearly something amiss.

Saltburn has trains which are quite cheap aswell as far as I'm aware include the new TPE extensions and is an actual central station believe it's £6 or so return off peak, it's 3x quicker aswell.

You'd be mad to use the bus there unless you need to go to some random place inbetween which it doesn't do. Imo the bigger question is why is the need for the X2/X3/X4 all duplicating a rail network and serving absolutely nothing inbetween like Cleveland Retail Park and Eston Tesco where no doubt some people shop.

No doubt it's why the cuts are coming as the only people doing that will be pensioners using their bus passes as it's free.