(13 Mar 2024, 7:41 am)RobinHood wrote It's a final throw of the dice to make it actually worthwhile even supporting, essentially poaching further from the commercial network (namely Skelton to Saltburn movements, which were previously omitted to avoid abstraction from the X3 primarily). Current demand is not even worth the public funds being used, Cllrs were made aware of that, so this really is last resort stuff from their end to try and increase the demand to justify retention.

It's either this, or Teesflex. Not both.

Must say, from an outsider, it's absolutely ridiculous waste of public funds, infact most, if not all, the Tees Valley BSIP routes are pretty much.

Surely stuff like giving a large village like Stillington some form of service at all, it's not like it's serving the outback with 3 houses it's a reasonable sized village but has absolutely nothing at all.

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/54.56583...?entry=ttu - Like something like that with 1 bus, every hour, seems like it would be excellent use of the funds imo, it's frankly ridiculous those villages have no service at all imo, yet we're spunking it on duplicating routes in East Cleveland.

Heck if this partnership nonsense actually exists, you could give it to Arriva and work it with the X22 and give a 30 minute service between Thorpe Thewles and Stockton.