From the Stagecoach website.
Regrettably, outside of schools times, the numbers of customers travelling on Services 3 and 3A to and from the Clavering and Hart Station areas haven't been as much as we'd hoped. As a result of this continued low usage, the section of route between Bluebell Way roundabout and Clavering / Hart Station will be withdrawn.
So why are the Council installing Bus Stops on Merlin Way between The Bluebell Way roundabout and Sainsbury's when the Service has been discontinued ?
On the occasion I used the service usually after Aldi on Hart Lane I was the only passenger.
But is it the Council installing the bus stop signs or the Tees Valley. A couple of years they were banging up bus stop signs with all the gusto of a Councillor at a buffet.
Signs were appearing at stops where buses had stopped using them years ago.
One time the bus operator would have installed the bus stop signs, so it sounds like a lack of communication.
Is there a subsidy/grant for the number of bus stops maintained (even if they're not used)?
Quote from: Gustaf I of England + BWH on September 08, 2018, 04: PM
Is there a subsidy/grant for the number of bus stops maintained (even if they're not used)?
HBC get business rates paid to them for each one I think and even more if they contain advertising space. That's why not many bus shelters around as well as the vandalism malarkey
Quote from: Inspector Knacker on September 08, 2018, 03: PM
But is it the Council installing the bus stop signs or the Tees Valley. A couple of years they were banging up bus stop signs with all the gusto of a Councillor at a buffet.
Signs were appearing at stops where buses had stopped using them years ago.
One time the bus operator would have installed the bus stop signs, so it sounds like a lack of communication.
Drove past today, Council installing the Bus Stops, no one tell them the Bus has been stopped due to lack of passengers never too return.
It's not just bus stops they are installing, they are also raising the kerbs and paving over the grass verge to allow access to the buses that won't run - maybe our leader would care to comment on that?
Or is the Tees Valley formulating their own future plans about bus services or just a normal SNAFU?
We've just received this message from someone who's particularly knowledgeable about local buses.
'... just to answer one of the questions on there about the bus stops at Bishop Cuthbert it's connect Tees Valley who are responsible for installing the bus stops and not the council. The council are only responsible for putting the new timetables up. '
Quote from: admin on September 12, 2018, 12: PM
We've just received this message from someone who's particularly knowledgeable about local buses.
'... just to answer one of the questions on there about the bus stops at Bishop Cuthbert it's connect Tees Valley who are responsible for installing the bus stops and not the council. The council are only responsible for putting the new timetables up. '
Not actually physical Bus Stops just raising the pavements but it is Council workers who are doing it ?
Quote from: seaton on September 12, 2018, 01: PM
Quote from: admin on September 12, 2018, 12: PM
We've just received this message from someone who's particularly knowledgeable about local buses.
'... just to answer one of the questions on there about the bus stops at Bishop Cuthbert it's connect Tees Valley who are responsible for installing the bus stops and not the council. The council are only responsible for putting the new timetables up. '
Not actually physical Bus Stops just raising the pavements but it is Council workers who are doing it ?
Council has a monopoly on all roadside kerbs as it gets to "adopt" them once they have been installed by a developer. It's a great money spinner for the council as if you want them changed outside your property they charge a fortune to do it and they are the only ones who can do the work it seems