(10 hours ago)Superman wrote I dont think the 28 is aimed at people going end to end. Instead, it logical to connect together to get the bus back to Middlesbrough perhaps for relief and for improvements such as Marton and Nunthorpe direct to Redcar, West Guisborough direct to Redcar for example.
Surely it would be better to split it at Redcar though, even if they interwork?
Least then the thing can be regulated when it's goes tits up from Middlesbrough to Nunthorpe with the large timetable gap being stuck between the 28 -> 81 and if things go so tits up, you can just get an extra resource for the 81 running on it's own and start turning the 28's at Redcar back without doing the 81 bit so they effective get an extra 25 minutes or so.
This is just the X21/35 again which is being split because it doesn't work.