(01 Jul 2023, 9:17 pm)James101 wrote I understand it's DCC's prerogative but it would have been useful to have ticket availability at least within Hartlepool and use the 59 to reinstall a service along Milbank Road, serve the Marina which is were people generally want to be, through the interchange to the town centre and terminate via York Rd & Park rd. The current route has been the same for the Trimdon bus since the dawn of time - there's nothing left along Raby Rd or York Rd North left to serve.
Also of note is it looks like it would cost about 15 minutes to run the 07:15 from Trimdon to Durham in service from Hartlepool as the dead run is similar. This would provide a bus from Hartlepool to Durham 30 minutes earlier than the 24 and in time for anyone needed a 9am start for work or education.
Surely it's upto Stagecoach not Durham CC / Tees Valley. If Stagecoach want to give the applicable element of the fare to cover the costs Durham would make from the fares then I'm sure they wouldn't mind.
Otherwise they're not going to let Stagecoach tickets on as Stagecoach can't be paid to run a service then make a profit off the fares at the same time.