(24 Mar 2023, 5:12 pm)RobinHood wrote It's designed to cater for links that are not provided by the current commercial network - but also designed not to abstract where possible.

Tendering a service to compete with the commercial network is not good use of public money.

Unfortunately though, i cannot see it working commercially and it will be either this or Flex, not both.

There's the X3, X4 and 5 that will be shadowed/followed or in front of this 1 and 2 though.
(I didn't count the X93 for the sake of a couple of stops). 

It goes without saying that Teesflex can and does duplicate part of the Arriva network and most certainly abstracts from it. 

However I agree with your last point.
It ain't big enough for Arriva, Teesflex and the 1/2.