(07 Jul 2025, 1:15 pm)Superman wrote https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/t...ng-2889778

£14.86 per passenger journey is the subsidy, from last November for TeesFlex. That's just under £30 per return journey.

This will have marginally increased with the contract value increase and given TeesFlex isn't growing in passenger numbers either.

It's a clear waste of public money and quite a number of the locations can be accessed already by bus.

Not arguing for the sake of it, but not sure if that's actually that high considering the areas it's serving. The alternative is loads of routes like the 1, 2, X40/X41 etc which are also carrying around fresh air and I'd be pretty sure (might be wrong) that the subsidy is going to be worse on these.

imo these routes should be scrapped immediately and people pushed onto Teesflex which is the exact point of it.

Doing both is just stupid - and the real issue.