(24 Feb 2023, 12:36 pm)Adrian wrote I think it's a difficult balance to strike sometimes though. When you're serving a remote area, like Peterlee is, it's often the best way to run some of the local services. We're talking about the flexibility for at most 20 Saturdays a year, but realistically probably 2/3 of that.
Looking at the X6, the same buses also interwork with the 38/201/209/210. I'm not familiar with the 209/210, but I can't think of anything on the 38/201 routes that would cause a problem for say a Streetlite or Citaro.
But again, there's always a way or a means to solving the issue.
There was talk of cost benefit in the Transdev thread.
How long would it take to sort out a bigger allocation for those 20 Saturdays and what would be the benefit of doing so?
The other option is to do nothing and potentially see passenger numbers drop.
Whilst that may have been the go to solution in the past, we all know what impact that has had.
They need to do things differently now. There needs to be a swing change in how they work.
The status quo clearly doesn't work.