(12 Aug 2023, 8:12 am)tvd wrote Not really, it's well used by people coming to and from the Whitby end by people boarding before Loftus.  In a way it's makes a nice change to have a service that has issues because it is so heavily used!

Once the summer ends it will get better anyway, but I can't help thinking that if they did something with the Whitby town services next year it could ease the pressure.

Years ago there were several Whitby town routes, but whilst tourism has increased massively and the X93's and X4 (256,X56,5 coast route before that) have had frequency increases, the town routes have been cut back.  Surely there's potential improvements to be made there.

Wonder if there could ever be a scope for extending the X94 through instead and having a 30 minute service through to Middlesbrough but at the cost of the 5A.

So you'd end up with some like the below:


5: Middlesbrough to Easington: Every 30 Minutes
5A: Middlesbrough to Nunthorpe Roundabout: Every 30 Minutes
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5/5A: Every 15 Minutes, Middlesbrough to Nunthorpe Roundabout, potential scope to send the 5A elsewhere instead from Ormseby rather than the A171.

Summer Months:
X93: Middlesbrough to Scarborough additionally serving Lingdale to replace 5A: Hourly
X94: Middlesbrough to Scarborough via Sandsend: Hourly

Winter Months:
X92: Middlesbrough to Guisborough: Hourly
X93: Middlesbrough to Scarborough via Lingdale: Hourly

5/X92/X93: Every 15 Minutes: Middlesbrough to Guisborough.

Guisborough probably deserves a 30 minute express service, and if you ran the X93/X94 in front of the X4's it could massively help with the problems along there and people on the 'wrong' bus and open up Sandsend from Middlesbrough. The 15/15/30 timetable currently on the 5/5A is completely stupid aswell.