(2 hours ago)robisdave4554 wrote Many, many years ago we had a perfect network of buses in East Cleveland. Services 79 and 85 operated Loftus - Redcar/Saltburn while the 78 and 86 did Lingdaie to Redcar/Saltburn. It was an half hourly service throughout the day from early morning to late evening. All services inter-connected at Skelton where it wasn't far to be further connected into service 65 which ran Middlesbrough-Loftus/Whitby. It was in effect a perfect service. Obviously we can't return to such.
That system worked well for years, changing at the ‘4 bus stops’ at Skelton if necessary.
Also the 256 & X56 providing the stopping service and express from Whitby/Loftus to Middlesbrough were very good.
Not sure they were ever perfect, but people seemed to have more reasonable expectations back then. I can’t remember demands for a bus to the hospital from every village, for example (although there was a hospital bus that ran each evening from East Cleveland and back again).
The X4 has been a success though, with Redcar & Saltburn gaining links to Whitby and running buses every 30 minutes is a better frequency than the hourly ones we used to have - albeit Whitby has taken off as a tourist town in the past couple of decades and maybe that frequency increase would’ve happened anyway.
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