(26 Oct 2016, 10:32 pm)thetravelman wrote I do agree and I have mentioned before that I think the TEN brand needs a full allocation of branded vehicles, whether this be by getting just a few new buses to make up the allocation to fully branded or even if we are really lucky a full set of brand new buses for the brand and the current vehicles cascaded elsewhere.
The big question if any new deckers are to come is will GNE want to just do a straight forward upgrade or will they want them utilised accordingly in spite of abandoned GKN modifications? The PVR required for both sets routes in question would be the same give or take a PVR increase opportunity. And either solution would sort out allocation issues on both sets of routes.
Although (and this is just personal opinion) I love the B9s, they seem too heavy duty of a vehicle for one set of routes concerned looking
in comparison to what another operator is running in competition with particular reference to what was running before the Green Bus Fund bid and despite them not being to scratch in their current tarted up guises on the 'X' routes, they did the job OK as a City / Urban vehicle for the competing route in question.