You can tap on and off Transdev and be charged the relevant daily rate or sum of fares, whichever is cheaper. However, the rollout was very extended, with Burnley getting it much later than other places.
They do promote the app
I personally find their app to be worse than First's, perhaps some improvements would make it more favourable and it would be cheaper for Transdev.
Usage was getting quite high until it got cheaper for most people to to pay £2 every trip. And although you can get a £2 ticket in the app, it's not easier or cheaper for people, so most don't.
What don't you like? I find it to be one of the better ones.
The layout, I find it a bit messy, First's is tidier. Also, I don't like how when I open it, it zooms into Starbeck on a map.
Settings - Start Screen - change it to what you want.
When I’ve asked for a paper ticket on the Coastliner, I’ve been told to just tap on (no need to tap off). If you're going more than a few stops on Transdev services, it's going to be £2 anyway. At least it's not like First who as far as I can tell have a £2 flat fare in operation anyway!
Didn't know that, thanks.
Does Castleline use Rawcliffe?
You can do that easily York Stonebow to Whitby is 2h 5 north, 25 min break (while not classed as a full break, it is not driving time), 2h15 south. Bearing in mind that also includes about 8 minutes sat at Malton each way and so if on time that only makes it 4h5 drive roughly.
While it's timetabled to take that time, I speak from experience when I say it nearly always takes longer due to traffic.
There is an 1h35 leeway there (1h25 left based off timetable plus 2x5 mins for the Malton layover) and so even if it runs late, there is plenty of buffer time for driving hours.
You don't want to know how late some Coastliner buses can be...
Tonight being a perfect example with the A64 closed between the A1237 and Barton Hill. An 840 for Thornton-le-Dale, presumably the 1625 from Leeds due just now at Malton, is as I write this heading south from Stockton on the Forest towards Holtby on the A166 while an 843 has just followed the A166/A1079 into York.
Oof, I often will see multiple Coastliners right behind each other, reliability is as bad if not worse than TPE's (their main competitor on long routes) reliability.
The delay against the schedule does not matter one bit with regards to driving hours. The driving time clock only starts ticking counts for time that you are driving and so based off a driver swap at Stonebow, the driver on your mentioned trip would have only done 1h40 drive (scheduled 1h15). Yes there is 25 minutes extra driving there but given the buffer space available (1h35), 25 minutes extra drive is nothing and even if the same level of traffic was hit on the return journey, you still have 45 minutes of buffer time for driving hours. It can still be very easily done.
Driver swaps don't tend to happen at Stonebow.
Where do they swap in York then? and will there be a new changeover point if/when the services move?
They don't tend to swap in York, it usually happens in Malton.
It won't be revealed obviously but a modern comparison would be quite interesting. If the number of very local drivers to Malton is small and Scarborough residents would look elsewhere then if they company can recruit sufficient people from the York area that'd offset the loss. York depot didn't exist for Coastliner 20 years ago, the operation was Top Line. Presumably those numbers will be smaller given the passage of time and the changes to the timetable since then.
I think, as Stagecoach have learned to their extreme cost in Kent, it's best not to second guess what drivers are going to do. That once flagship operator is now crippled most likely beyond any realistic hope of repair. It will be interesting to see what happens at Malton, and yes, it would be interesting to see the resident split 20 years on.
not sure I can find people stating that it is a bad thing, just alternative suggestions.
That is an extremely common occurrence on Coastliner. People use Coastliner instead of TPE but it's getting to the point where Coastliner is just as bad if not worse than TPE in terms of reliability.
