(25 Feb 2024, 10:14 am)Storx wrote 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.
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.
Moorsholm?
Ironically, there's additional contracted services that goes to the big Anglo American site up there at the moment.
I don't know if it was in this thread or another, but I firmly believe that the services to the villages up there could see existing services such as the X3 at Lingdale (extremely easy to do) or the 5 from Liverton Mines (again, very easy to do) connect with the likes of the X93 on the A171.
This instantly removes the need for the 1 and 2 to run in those specific areas and opens up the Guisborough link you mention, plus others towards the coast.
Granted, it doesn't do anything for Skinningrove or other areas - but would surely be a better use of taxpayers money.
(25 Feb 2024, 3:04 pm)DeltaMan wrote I have some sympathy for the council to be honest.
The "usual" thing to do would be to pay Arriva for an extra bus on the 5 to serve Skinningrove and another extra bus to serve Liverton and Moorsholm.
Rightly or wrongly, they decided "sod that" we'll serve these places a different way with a fixed route service.
Wished other local authorities would do the same to be honest instead of just replacing like with like, as only one party usually benefits. The operators chucking in the route to begin with as they already know how much it will cost!
The bus they took out not that long ago?