(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!
In fairness as mentioned below, it shouldn't be on the bus operator to keep adding PVR into routes either because of poor traffic management and that is on the council. Cargo Fleet Lane is absolutely appalling for traffic problems.
(25 Feb 2024, 8:34 pm)Andreos1 wrote 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.
The bus they took out not that long ago?
Aye that's the one, god knows where I got that from. Yeah honestly agreed to be honest - I think it was to me actually, unsure where the post was. Think it might have been the thread about the X3 being cut to hourly.