I live in East Cleveland, and we've had the new Evoras last year for the X4 and the Yutongs for the Stagecoach 1 & 2. The 5 runs every day from early till late and is fairly reliable considering the length of the route. There will always be calls for more services or better buses but I think we generally do pretty well for being mainly an area of small towns and villages.

For a long time people were demanding a bus to Skelton Asda. We got it, few people used it. Those in Easington asked for it to serve them, which happened. Still hardly anyone uses it. Now people in Brotton are asking for it to serve more of that area, which is fair enough but really it isn't said often enough that people need to actually start using the heavily subsidised buses they are getting.

I cant imagine there's too many other places in the country that operate nice new electric buses on routes like the 1 & 2 that carry so few passengers. We are actually pretty lucky here, despite what many locals think.