05 Feb 2017, 10:22 am
#62
(04 Feb 2017, 11:41 pm)Jamie M I don't understand this B5LH nonsense will hills - the angels do hill sections along the X21 every evening and sundays with no problems at all!
Not directing this at you, but if there was such an issue with hybrids or non-B9 vehicles being on more "demanding" parts of routes, why would a depot allocate such vehicles?
This is an arguement that people always bring up about hybrids on the northerns, and I'm always short of finding the logic behind the argument.
Maybe I'm being ignorant of some important fact, but when a depot could be allocating streetlites or solars or whatever else is lurking (to a route with throughfares or whateve), it would pick the hybrid if there was fundamental problems with the terrain for the vehicle.
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Not saying that Hybrids / Lightweight can't cope with hills as they can. I'm more on about the fuel side of things. Surely it would make more sense in the case of a cascade to remove heavy duty deckers from a route with fewer demands where bigger fuel savings can be made.
If you look at the 310, bar the Coast Road and mainly between Station Road / Benfield Road, it's practically all estates. The 309 bar the Coast Road, Blyth Road and Links Road, it's again practically all urban areas with traffic hotspots around the Cobalt, at times Rake Lane as well as Whitley Bay Town Centre too.
