17 Oct 2015, 11:24 am
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(17 Oct 2015, 11:21 am)B10man As for the double deckers transfer guess sure gne would have the new buses at their depot by now if they were getting any for the 25/10/15, i think gne just made a mistake with the timetables leaflets and what bus to put on front of them. Its highly unlikely gne will order any new buses until the quality contracts has been decided. Why would they buy a load of new buses just for someone else to come in and take over? Any i heard they a keen to replace the MPDs before anything else, which in my opinion is a mistake as they need them awful red deckers replacing asap. Yellow deckers oh they are fine, 20 more years in them at least.
With the Scania N94 being a new vehicle type to join the fleet, they probably didn't have a drawing available for it... The majority of customers won't know the difference between the appearance of a Volvo B9TL and a Scania N94, so I wouldn't get too het up about it.
It'll be illegal to run the yellow Volvo Olympian double-deckers in service on or after 1 January 2017, as I'd imagine the cost to bring them to DDA standard would be far too significant to even consider, so there's certainly not 20 more years left in them! The red Volvo B7TL double deckers are all DDA-compliant and as such there's no necessity to replace these vehicles prior to a certain date - I cannot see these being withdrawn until a time comes whereby younger second-hand high-capacity double-deck vehicles are readily available within the group to replace these vehicles.
