(13 Oct 2019, 11:45 am)xpm wrote

As much as you personally 'like' a route - doesn't mean to say it should or has justification become an X-Lines or NSA route, we've had this same discussion several times on another thread., it just doesn't warrant the amount that it would cost to do this.

I would personally prefer individual route branding over having everything under one brand.

I thought Castles Express was an excellent brand but I can totally see why they chose to re-brand it to Xlines with it being the longest route (in terms of time, and length if you don't count the X9/X10 as one continuous route)

I'm honestly surprised that it isn't a condition of the contract that council contract routes must have NSA to make them more 'accessible'.

Plus, I'm fairly sure that advertising a bus service as having next stop announcements, but having them turned off for 6 months would technically be false advertisement, as is the case with the X21.

I wonder if the delay to putting the NSA back on the X21 has anything to do with the alleged extension to West Auckland that I've heard mentioned a few times recently