(04 May 2020, 9:23 pm)tyresmoke wrote Absolutely, there's plenty of families who don't have access to a car who are not able to catch the train to the likes of Seaton Carew or Saltburn... just needs someone with some idea of how to make it work. £1.50 day ticket sounds ideal back when the councils had money to throw at buses!
I seem to remember £1.50 bought my family a ride on the floor of a VR with a crush load when we caught it the year Continental ran it! Can’t say it wasn’t popular at those prices!
I think they ended up putting a dupe on the last return journey as we got on a Lynx which went semi-express to Hartlepool. Remember my Gran scorning the driver for chucking a plastic bottle out of the open door.
The Navy Museums now operate the Historic Quay in Hartlepool. Administrated by the MoD they’re probably one of the more well heeled public bods who would be open to contributing to a service it was orientated around them? Small contributions from councillors budgets and some decent marketing could see something along those lines work?
Not to drag the same old subject up but it’s a good example of a service that makes sense, would be popular and good for the community and businesses. It’s a non-starter due to a system that demands a direct commercial return from a public service where the benefits should be measured in the benign it gives to the people and businesses en route.