(09 Jan 2016, 10:13 am)scania driver wrote All to do with saving money and resources. Arriva have a team someplace whose role must be dedicated to this under the banner heading of "Service Improvements". They want to get out in the real world and listen to the customers. And as I've said before, why no direct (and fast) service/connection between two major connurbations? Namely Darlington and Hartlepool. All to do with politics between operators, nothing to do with providing a service that the customers want.
Is there enough demand for another service linking Hartlepool and Middlesbrough, given that Stagecoach already run two successful services between these two locations?
The Arriva services which would feed into this proposed service between Hartlepool and Middlesbrough are the 23/24 services - both of which come from Peterlee. Given that there's already an existing service which operates between Peterlee and Middlesbrough (21A) which passengers on the 23/24 services could connect with at Peterlee, anyone who would presumably use this proposed service would live somewhere on the corridor between Blackhall Colliery and Hartlepool, as this is a centre-point between Peterlee and Hartlepool and presumably the point at which connecting at Peterlee may take longer.
I just don't think that the market is big enough.