(24 Mar 2016, 9:56 pm)Jackamcardle I just think that the 47 gets really busy at times and will not be able to cope with single deckers. As well as, I don't think that the 45/46 gets high enough numbers to need double deckers. Anyway, we'll just have to see who's right on the 18 April (not 17th because it's a Sunday and they're not as busy anyway)
Although the 45 / 46 / 47 group might justify deckers in years to come, you've got to remember that the majority of 47's running around with full loads are often late. Bar the occasional run here and there, the 47 could just about cope with single deckers for now with improved timetables and reliability.
I wonder even if GNE have another 4x or 5x Streetlites coming this year for that purpose. Would allow the current Red Kite B9s to move on to the Angel which for the basic internal configuration, would suit the 'urban' nature of the route to a T perhaps fitted with some TFT next stop announcements and the Wi-Fi already being included. The 2x spares could even fill in for the extra X21's as long as the full PVR was being covered by the 15x Hybrids and 2x B9TLs without any issues.
