10 Aug 2015, 4:29 pm
#467
(10 Aug 2015, 3:55 pm)aureolin It's a pity people weren't invited along to Crimdon Dene for the photo opportunities. I can't see why it would need to be kept a big secret?
Trying to rack my brains and think of the launches this year. Correct me if I'm wrong, but have they not all been carried out with the target audience of young children? Even the family fun day, whilst I think the attendance was fantastic, was geared at parents bringing young children along.
The old to new changeover was a good idea in principal, and one geared at enthusiasts, but most people on this board would have pointed out that Peterlee is a bad place to do this. It's one of the few places I'm wary of, and I know I'm not the only one of this opinion. The fact people have had abuse thrown at them backs this up.
It'd probably a better idea to line them up at Saltmeadows for a photo opportunity, whether that be as well or instead of, if there are reasons people couldn't be invited to Crimdon Dene. Stagecoach seem to have managed this with two of their orders (and giving people more than a day or two's notice), and both times have had fantastic turnouts.
Couldn't agree more about Crimdon Dene, it would have provided a much better photo opportunity than Peterlee Bus Station where they will be appearing on services there all the time so it wasn't really a unique photo opportunity at all. It's not the first time either as it was the same for the X66 with the StreetLite's where they had another secret photo shoot. Don't get why they are so secretive, even if they only let us know via this forum it wouldn't attract many people. Back to Peterlee Bus Station was it really best publising that today, Peterlee is awful for photos and then you have all the people hanging around the bus station waiting for their buses which certainly attracted their attention to us and ended up with some of us getting abuse for it which is partly why I briefly ducked out from the bus station at points to get my photos. The reason I never normally bother with GNE events is because it feels like to some extent they don't want us there, and all these secret launches sort of backs up my opinion I feel.
