The X4 could be so much better but where to start? Use the 'better' buses. Pulsars are usually good, don't use the Temsas. Save a few minutes by not going through Ellerby. There's no lee-way on the timetable- 5 minutes in Boro and 6 minutes in Whitby is not enough. The buses get held up through the coastal towns of Redcar and Saltburn and then Sandsend and Whitby in the busier times. Could an extra bus be added from Whitby in the middle of the day- say between 12 noon and 4pm? Since the timetable changes the 5 and X4 are timed to run together between Brotton and Loftus - although in practice in never happens. Could one of the 5's run to Whitby leaving on of the X4's terminating at Easington?