Council bus service consultation event at Ormesby Library

The consultation event produced the inevitable conclusion that there are not enough bus services to key destinations from Ormesby Bank without needing to change buses.

The services that remain after Arriva alterations all now travel down Cargo Fleet Lane.

According to Council officials there were calls for:

• The re-introduction of the 66/67 circular service that previously gave direct access from the Nunthorpe area to Morrisons on Ormesby Road, James Cook Hospital on Marton Road, the One Life doctors' surgeries on Linthorpe Road into Middlesbrough.
• The extension of the route of Service 27 and other services that turn in the Overfields/ Allendale Road area to travel up Ormesby Bank and turn around at Swan's Corner.
• An additional stop to the limited stop Service 93 at the top of Ormesby Bank to provide the direct route from Nunthorpe to Whitby.

Offivials have promised local Lib Dem Councillors that they will collate all of the comments that are arising from the consultation and report them to Arriva to see if they can get them to sort out some of the problems that have arisen.

The consultation results are entirely predictable. We have consistently called for these changes. Ann Wilson, a key member of our local team, collected hundreds of signatures for our petition which called for these changes.

Arriva must know already that local people think their service is totally inadequately in our area.