(25 Feb 2024, 12:29 am)Andreos1 wrote To be fair, the 1 and 2 do serve areas without a commercial service.
But, those areas could quite easily be covered by an ANE service (extended, diverted or new route) OR Teesflex.
I really don't understand the need for the 3rd option.
If fairness, though there's literally Tees Flex to serve those communities if we're talking about the place just off the A171 (Musgrove?). Places like that will never be viable for a bus service of any form especially one with full length singles on it. It's the sort of place that if it did have a service, it should be a breadvan connecting to Guisborough where you get other services; once, or twice a day.
Might sound brutal, but if you choose to live there, then you can't really expect decent public transport and, as far as I'm aware, it never did have any either. I always think Teesflex is a good idea but the scheme is so badly advertised and let's be honest confusing. The day they advertise those things as a 'cheap taxi' rather than a 'dynamic rapid bus' then they might actually have a chance. I've said it before but if at 3am in the morning there was an option where I paid £4 and I got into a vehicle which dropped people off at multiple houses on the way, I'd be well open for it. It's better than the £15 taxi and stupid wait times, sadly that option is missing though.
Ironically Teesflex doesn't run then.
Infact today I need to head across to Gateshead to see a mate which will be a multiple bus job, if the option was there for a £6 return (the Teesflex pricing) I'd take it without a consider of doubt. I ain't paying £18 each way for a taxi though.
(25 Feb 2024, 1:05 am)solsburian wrote The real issues with all of this is that the decisions seem to be made by people who know nothing about the underlining issues, or have any ay expertise, either at the political and/or administrative level. NCC's Stuart McNaughton is a classic example. A council officer who is inadvertently linked to the issues with the new Seaton Delaval Station, who ignored multiple councillor, stakeholder (and commercial entity) warnings about the land they chose being a sinkhole and over old mine shafts years ago. Sadly it is a case of who you know, not what you know that seems to ensure a position of power.
Pretty much, most politician roles are like that, mind more so that anyone with any knowledge would dodge the role as much as they can as it's toxic. Mind, he's done better than others in the area, least some of the bus improvements actually make sense unlike other areas.