(12 Mar 2021, 8:11 am)streetdeckfan wrote Is there much difference between those StreetLites and the ones we have down here?
I don't find them particularly bad, if anything I think they're slightly more cushioned than GNE's e-leather equivalents.
I think the seats are marginally worse on theirs than the ones round Bishop/Darlington although still don't find those great but I ain't on those for 2 hours except when they were doing Dalesbus and Moorsbus in the summer before although they weren't particularly well favoured by passengers on these routes more for the absolutely shockingly bad ride quality than anything on some of the roads the routes serve.
(12 Mar 2021, 2:56 pm)col87 wrote A few ideas to improve the Hartlepool and Teesside networks.
Teesside
The 15 extended to North Tees Hospital and all services extending to Ingleby Berwick via Thornaby.
Some services will be renumbered to 16 and will operate North Tees Hospital - Yarm via Preston Park replacing the service 7. Both will continue to be a regular high frequency service.
17 Will be extended to Stockton via Thornaby replacing the existing 17 and 17A services.
21 Middlesbrough - Yarm - Teesside Airport - Darlington.
This will run in conjunction with the X66 and X67 providing a direct service between Middlesbrough Yarm and Teesside Airport.
X 12 X13
All X12 Journeys will now Terminate at Durham.
New Service X13 will take over some of the X12 route and will operate Middlesbrough - Stockton- Billingham then Direct to Chester Le Street - The Angel of the North - Gateshead and Newcastle.
63 will continue as now but will now serve Kirkleatheam village.
X4 Will no longer continue to Whitby and instead will terminate at Lofus.
New Service 67 will operate A new Whitby - Redcar service.
Some X93 Journeys will re numbered X95 and will operate non stop between Whitby and Scarborough and Continue to Bridlington via most of the Holiday Parks. This will be 2 journeys each way
on a morning and afternoon.
Most other services to remain unchanged.
Hartlepool.
23 and 24 to be unchanged.
New service 25 will operate between Hartlepool and Peterlee via Hart Station and Castle Eden.
57 57A remain unchanged.
New service X23 will operate as a limited express service between Hartlepool and Sunderland via Peterlee Easington and Doxford International.
A few ideas to improve the Hartlepool and Teesside networks.
Teesside
The 15 extended to North Tees Hospital and all services extending to Ingleby Berwick via Thornaby.
Some services will be renumbered to 16 and will operate North Tees Hospital - Yarm via Preston Park replacing the service 7. Both will continue to be a regular high frequency service.
17 Will be extended to Stockton via Thornaby replacing the existing 17 and 17A services.
21 Middlesbrough - Yarm - Teesside Airport - Darlington.
This will run in conjunction with the X66 and X67 providing a direct service between Middlesbrough Yarm and Teesside Airport.
X 12 X13
All X12 Journeys will now Terminate at Durham.
New Service X13 will take over some of the X12 route and will operate Middlesbrough - Stockton- Billingham then Direct to Chester Le Street - The Angel of the North - Gateshead and Newcastle.
63 will continue as now but will now serve Kirkleatheam village.
X4 Will no longer continue to Whitby and instead will terminate at Lofus.
New Service 67 will operate A new Whitby - Redcar service.
Some X93 Journeys will re numbered X95 and will operate non stop between Whitby and Scarborough and Continue to Bridlington via most of the Holiday Parks. This will be 2 journeys each way
on a morning and afternoon.
Most other services to remain unchanged.
Hartlepool.
23 and 24 to be unchanged.
New service 25 will operate between Hartlepool and Peterlee via Hart Station and Castle Eden.
57 57A remain unchanged.
New service X23 will operate as a limited express service between Hartlepool and Sunderland via Peterlee Easington and Doxford International.
Some of these suggestions have been put into practice in some forms in the past and never really took off and think some were council supported before being cut and others are just pointless duplicating of existing services or inconveniencing other passengers from changed/lost links.