(04 May 2015, 4:38 pm)citaro5284 wrote It seems everyone had a good time. One thing which I disagree GNE doing is taking a bus off service to attend a rally. All X66 vehicles are required and should be available for service and there is no excuse for one of them to be sitting at a rally all day and not been on service and consequently the X66 has to operate with a red spare.

In my opinion, buses should only go if not required.

I have to agree with this as my book it is rather poor spending all that money on new buses and promoting them and people may have gone to the MetroCentre today using the X66 expecting a brand new bus operating the service and a considerably older Solar (or Versa) turns up instead which doesn't look as sparkly as a brand new bus would.

It seems rather silly to take one off the X66 especially as it goes right past the rally site with some travelling on the X66 to get to the event.

Other than that it was nice to see GNE fetch a decent number of buses along including the new Red Kite's and Omnidekka's.

Other than the issues with the X22 I have really enjoyed today.