(Yesterday, 5:01 pm)Robisdave54 wrote When you think about it and given the area/catchment of places like New Marske 1 bus an hour is quite shameful. Dependency for people to go to work and do essential business must be high.
We are slowly being pushed into a situation in some parts of East Clevelabd where Ben Houchens buses - Stagecoach 1 & 2 will prove to be the only lifeline they have.
Didn't someone say that Stagecoach were giving up the 1 and 2 soon? If anyone is going to win them, then Arriva is the sensible winner for them.
I don't know the changes, but if Arriva end up running the 1 and 2 (the need more buses), maybe it might be the X3 getting scrapped beyond Marske.
The 1 and 2 duplicate it anyway and the 5/5A, X2 and X4 already do the direct Middlesbrough links for all the villages the X3 serves (the consolidation part). Why bother running something commercial, the council is funding anyway for no reason?
You could also easily terminate the X3 at Marske Estate and extend the 28 through to Redcar and scrap the 81 aswell if you wanted to save another bus with that moving to Redcar (buses moving depots).
I don't know though, just speculation, but none of those would be deal breakers really, arguably better the 81 change.