(20 Sep 2025, 3:26 am)tyresmoke wrote Changes primarily designed to help with Stockton’s staffing crisis… I would hope many of the reductions are temporary!
On top of these… operation of the 5a will move to Redcar and the X12 will be an entirely Durham production from November.
Impressed to see the additional journeys being kept on the X4 and X93 through the winter.
It is nice to see that some growth is now on the cards and the X3, X4, X12 all get some extensions.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the only substantial reductions are the 8 and 63 going from 10 minutes to 15 minutes?
The way people were talking about these changes made it seem like entire routes were being withdrawn! You would like to think these will re-increase in due course, at the very least up to 12 minutes if not back to 10.
Admittedly, there is also the X22 peak journeys being curtailed back to Stockton which, although a shame, is perhaps not a great loss in the grand scheme of things - less convinced on whether these will return! Oh and the 805 too which is in essence 'a nice to have' to ease schooldays crowdings and I assume could come back if/when the others are put back to normal.