(8 hours ago)Storx wrote Even known I understand there's issues, not sure this is the correct advice.
You can't just not expect people to travel because of a road closure, unexpected or not.
This is an operator issue for not having the resources to be able to expand it at short notice when needed, let's not kid ourselves here. It's not the weather's fault they have a driver shortage.
It's advice, whether people wish to take it is another matter. Whitby being such a tourist area means a lot of people will be travelling to and around the area who don't really need to. People have got stranded in Scarborough recently, had to make their own arrangements or had waits of a couple of hours to get a bus. I'm pretty sure many of them will wish they didn't make the journey there to begin with.
Anyone expecting a bus company just to have extra vehicles and drivers on hand to use in these extreme circumstances, and employ them at great cost, is not being realistic.
Every year even in normal times with everything running well, tourists visit Whitby from afar by bus, don't check timetables and are caught out when they realise the last bus to Leeds, Middlesbrough or wherever has gone because its a Sunday/Bank holiday or just they expect buses to be as regular and late running here as in a large town or city.
But the advise is just that, people make their own decisions.