(09 Feb 2026, 8:54 pm)Mike_98 wrote I hope this is not true as it will take ages for people from Lingdale to get to places like Ormesby, Middlesbrough, James Cook Hospital. The 5A offers the best service they've ever had to get to Middlesbrough. The X3 is only useful to get to saltburn, skelton and redcar because it takes well over an hr to get to Boro.
The 5A does it in less than an hour so I don't think this will happen. People will be very frustrated to get to middlesbrough via eston and south bank. People want a service direct to James Cook Hospital, not eston square xD. But if it does ever happen, it will be revised very quickly. Also, if its true it just shows Arriva simply don't have a clue. They're really trying to congest everything down.
Again, I mentioned before that Arriva doing this sort of stuff is only going to get Stagecoach and other operators to point out to the authorities that Arriva ain't fit for purpose.
It’s rather clear you have absolutely no clue how any of this works and all you’ve managed to do here is make yourself look a tad foolish. If the local authority (Connect Tees Valley) were fit for purpose themselves, their funded bus network would actually be fit for purpose rather than just a political scoring exercise.