(10 Nov 2013, 6:55 pm)citaro5284 wrote Whilst I totally understand the traditionalists, is it not time to move on from liveries from years gone by.
To some people using the X21, they will not have a clue what OK Travel or OK Motor Services was. Lets move into 2013, and put the previous liveries into the history books.
The OK Expressway has only recently finished (and we still have the OK Way with the people of Evenwood and Cockfield desperate for it to be extended there as the Arriva 6 is diabolical and it would only take one extra bus) and most thought it a great livery. The X21 is historically more or less the main route of OK and local people have an empathy with it. The Venture is being updated now with two out of three colours of the traditional livery. I'm not advocating a return to the exact liveries of the former Northern constituents such as Tynemouth and SDO, but using them as the basis for a modern brand retaining some historic local relevance like the new Venture, which now I've had a closer look I like - apart from the silly "strapline" under the name, rather irrelevant as most V buses don't go very far.