20 Aug 2016, 11:17 am
#400
(20 Aug 2016, 11:01 am)Bus_User Might be me, but it seems GNE attitude towards branding and the such like on Wearside is that its secondary to whatever goes on in Tyneside, I mean could you really imagine unbranded vehicles going around on routes that heading into Newcastle for this long?
Also am i right in saying that some red arrows buses still got the older style branding? Its just seems to me GNE gives themselves far too much to do at times with constant re-paints, re-branding etc that things tend to get forgotten about like the unbranded silver mercs and the Cadets that were supposed to be branded up for the Black Cats which never happened, would not surprised me if the same things happens with the Solar's that got re-painted which in one way may not really matter as whilst the shade of red is slightly different, joe public won't probably know nor really care.
Maybe its more of a priority because of the service changes in the area? With the increase in PVR & change in routes to some branded services in Newcastle, they might of thought best to get the branding correct and updated before anything else?
As the 39 has been in corp livery for a while, I would imagine the urgency isn't there as people know its generally a red bus anyway.
Also the reason why the cadets/ merits weren't branded was the fact they decided to get rid of them due to reliability issues. You wouldn't brand something for the sake of it, then a year later for that brand to be perceived as unreliable due to the type of bus that operated it. In my opinion, GNE made right decision to wait until more reliable stock became available
