(2 hours ago)Ianthegoon wrote Heavily based on an historic route doesn't unfortunately make it a suitable route for today's traffic patterns.
But we’ll never have Service Improvements if nothing is tried. Tees Flex was too expensive . As Hartlepool is sadly is under TVCA (We should be NECA) , there’s never likely to be Bus Franchising in the near future, as Teeswork Ben is dead against it.