(29 Feb 2024, 8:47 pm)col87 wrote I know you were joking but the sad fact is you are correct the combined authority are happy to waste money on pointless services to the airport and seeing how far they can annoy Arriva and putting in services where millionaires live which will never be used but won’t provide money for routes in Hartlepool which could be useful. Stagecoach don’t care some of the buses wouldn’t look out of place in a scrapyard but instead of investing they just dump more scrap here so we get a second rate bus service if the bus actually turns up and are expected to be grateful for it.
I kind of was but wasn't. To be honest, transport in quite a few areas in Teesside completely sucks, like getting around Middlesbrough is non existent, literally every bus goes into the centre. I'm not saying there's a million people wanting to go from Ingleby Barwick / Thornaby to Hemlington / Coulby Newham but getting over the A19 is near impossible currently.
Mind got to give credit for the network which exists since it's pretty much all commercial since the councils down there fund next to nothing, ironic when they get some money they spunk it on rubbish.