(Yesterday, 10:38 am)tvd wrote Yes, I've seen a few threads on Facebook about it but a lot of people posting there - even councillors and the local MP - aren't clear about what they are asking for, except I think a bus between Saltburn and Guisborough, and the 1 & 2 to serve more of Brotton.
Then all the randoms wanting a bus from their street to James Cook hospital, Teesside Park, Whitby, Stockton.. you name it.
The Saltburn to Guisborough bus has been wanted by some ever since it stopped running before, because of a lack of use. The 1 & 2 link to Skelton Asda is a fair shout, but I don't know how that would fit into a timetable with a PVR of 2, and of course the track record of other villages asking for a bus and then not really using it is evident pretty much every time.
Someone will know more than me, but could the councils not just increase (or scrap) the 30p token fare for ENCTS passes before 9:30, and say the money earned/saved will be put towards subsidised services in local areas? The 30p fare has been that level for many years, surely it has to go up at some point - most other councils around the country don't offer this do they?
A point of view from a 'random' that lives in Brotton. Arriva provide a good service with the 5 that gets me to Skelton, Guisborough and Boro. And the X4 with the new Evoras up and down to coast to Whitby, Saltburn, Redcar and Boro again. What's missing is a link to Skelton retail park with Asda, Aldi, B and M and others. The Stagecoach buses miss the High Street and go up the bypass before dropping in to the hospital grounds. Fine for me but not so more elderly and frail residents. A simple re-routing of the 1 and 2 and the service would be used more. Same for re-routing through North Skelton and New Skelton. It costs £500,000 a year so surely it makes sense to make it more reachable. As for James Cook Hospital for residents of East Cleveland. I swap buses at Ormesby. But would it be so difficult for every other 5 to go down Marton Road and one of the 63s go down the 5 route?