(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. 

And not a lot of places are served by buses at all. 

Conversely, I know people who have made the switch from say the 81 and use Teesflex instead because it is cheaper and generally quicker. 
I'd agree it (and the 1/2) have detracted from the 81, X3 or 5. But I would also say that it has in turn brought benefits to the wider population and brought people on to public transport, who couldn't or wouldn't use it prior to Teesflex m

I've used Teesflex quite a lot myself and in the main, between places where there is no direct alternative. 
What should I do? Not use public transport, pay for two buses (there isn't a day ticket alternative) or something else? 

It's far from perfect, but it's better than nothing.