Ashly_Jethro
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Well said, it’s a shame some councils seem to have less interest in public transport than others...Quite.
Serving Whitby must, for all operators, be an utter pain in the ar*e. The, er, taxing, terrain from all sides mean that the buses must get absolutely hammered on the long-distance routes, and let's be honest - there's little traffic other than Goathland and perhaps Ruswarp/Sleights on the 840 before Thornton-le-Dale/Pickering, and the X93 both toward Scarborough and Middlesbrough have similarly few regular stops (I've been on more than one X93 that hasn't stopped between the edges of Scarborough and Robin Hood's Bay).
As a result, the costs of running the routes must be high, and thus the profitability low. Didn't NYCC once partially support existing journeys on the 840? Obviously with that council barely interested in supporting public transport, I'm not surprised the 840 runs at a pretty much minimal level. At least they are 'deckers on the route these days - in the latter days of the B10BLEs/B7RLEs (prior to the route change at Goathland), I remember at least one journey with standees across the moors!
The 843 is, and always has been, the goldmine for Coastliner. Let's just hope that a good summer this year allows more investment in future years.
I hadn’t thought about the benefits in regards to future investment. It could prove to be interesting indeed.
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