(08 Jul 2025, 1:53 pm)Adrian wrote Ironically this is what people had to do before Tees Flex, as they had been left behind from a commercial bus network. Teesflex is no doubt a lifeline to those people.

I'd love to see it improved in terms of marketing it properly, but I stand by that I feel it could be ran more efficiently and cheaper as an in house operation. If it's not a profitable service, as people suggest, then why pay a company to cream a % off the top?

I'm not sure it would be you know. I understand that they're taking a profit hit, but if it was publically ran then you'd need an engineer or two, a depot, some cleaners, some form of control room with staff, management - who won't be doing it cheap as I don't believe there's anyone on the TVCA team with bus management experience and so on...

All adds up, since it's not the biggest of all operations, otherwise you'd just be outsourcing that instead and you're back to square one anyway. 

Obviously if it was part of a bigger operation, then definitely, but that's still banned - as far as I'm aware.