(7 hours ago)tvd wrote 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.
Personally I don't think it is unrealistic. Realistically it's only an extra board to sort this out as it's only an extra 20 minutes or so via the moors if you dropped it to 1 BPH.
Arriva down there are cancelling buses on a daily basis lately as they don't have enough drivers to do the normal work and are as always relying on overtime which is bad practice.
Stuff like this is where overtime should be used, not running a normal service.
Don't disagree on the rest of your comments though.
Edit: Mind that said, it would help if Arriva actually mentioned the closure aswell - https://www.arrivabus.co.uk/service-aler...north-east, it's missing completely.