(01 Jun 2023, 8:32 am)Kuyoyo wrote The full changes in the Middlesbrough area for Stockton depot were posted by a councillor on Twitter late last night and are:
5: No service to Skinningrove at all, Liverton Mines retain hourly service Monday to Saturday but lose their Sunday service due to low usage (and to assist with reliability on Sundays). Not mentioned in the document but from my sources within Arriva, the 2320 journey from Middlesbrough to North Skelton on a Monday to Saturday will be revised to terminate at Guisborough while the Sunday trip at 2320, which presently terminates at Guisborough, will be withdrawn entirely
5a: Reduced to hourly, alongside the 5 and X93 will offer a bus every 15 minutes between Middlesbrough and Guisborough. Will follow the same route as the 5 within Guisborough (via Stokesley Road and Westgate to the Market Place) no longer serving Hutton Lane, before extending to Lingdale in place of the 28.
17/X17: Section between Ingleby Barwick Sober Hall and Kingsmead will be withdrawn, service 17 will instead operated half hourly between Middlesbrough and Ingleby Barwick, following the present loop within Ingleby but to a half hourly frequency rather than hourly. X17 withdrawn with these journeys now operating as 17s instead. Monday to Saturday evening journeys curtailed around 2100 and Sunday evenings will curtailed around 1930 (which is the time of the last trip on a Sunday presently anyway)
28: Cut to terminate at Guisborough Market Place, with Lingdale instead served by the 5a. All journeys will now serve Hunters Hill rather than just those at peak times.
28a: Journeys will not longer serve Nunthorpe Station, Swans Corner or Nunthorpe Village, instead operating via Marton Moor Corner, Stokesley Road and the A172 (the long-standing route of the Stokesley service prior to it become the 28a).
29: Revised to operate between Middlesbrough and Easterside only, no longer serving Marton or Cypress Road. Buses will operate a one-way loop of Easterside from James Cook Hospital via Marton Road, Marton Crossroads, Ladgate Lane (serving the stop at Marton Manor The Derby) and Broadwell Avenue. Weekday frequency remains at half hourly but Saturdays will operate hourly. Evening and Sunday journeys are withdrawn due to unsustainable demand.
The X22 change has previously been mentioned (although no details yet regarding what is happening to the evening X21 journeys between Peterlee and Sedgefield), as have the 62 and X2/X3. Leaving just the changes to Stockton's 7 to be revealed.
Those changes don't sound too bad in the face of it tbh especially in the Stockton area other than the 5 reduction. Not too surprised at the villages struggling but they have Teesflex I suppose (opinions on that for another thread).
Only thing that's not clear, is there new X93 shorts being done between Guisborough and Middlesbrough to make the 15 minute service as it's only every hour so would be 15 / 30 / 15 / 15?
(01 Jun 2023, 7:44 am)Rob44 wrote cuts to arriva services in North tynside have made the Chronicle! Apparently there is a petition to stop the cuts. Maybe if people jest used the buses rather then file out a form on their computer they services wouldn't be getting shelved???
It's very political that, as far as I'm aware it's an operational issue as much as being unsustainable. That's just Labour bashing at bus companies and the Conservatives as per usual and giving themselves credit for god knows what they actually done in 'saving' bus routes.