(12 Nov 2019, 9:34 pm)Dan wrote Come on - you're being silly now, it's not poor planning at all.

This refurbishment program was sorted 12 months ago with Bus & Coach World..! They would have ordered enough materials at the time for all 19 vehicles. It isn't something "off the shelf".

Seat moquette is incredibly expensive so to change this after the new specification was agreed would come at substantial cost.

The 14 ADL vehicles were always intended for Go North East, and you will see the StreetDecks delivered in a very similar style. This is the new interior specification for Go North East.

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All I'm saying is from the outside it seems like poor planning, not necessarily that a lot of planning hadn't gone into it.

Just out of curiosity how long ago was the new interior design that was used on the ADL vehicles planned out?

(12 Nov 2019, 9:35 pm)S813 FVK wrote

So now you're complaining about them keeping interiors the same across a batch of vehicles while simultaneously complaining that there will be 3 different interiors across the X21 fleet?

Have I understood this correctly? Surely I must be going wrong somewhere...

No, all I was saying was if that (keeping the same interiors) was GNE's priority, then they would have made sure that all the buses on the X21 would have the same internal spec.

Instead the X21 will have 3 different internal specs, they will have 4 with the blue leather seats, which have 240v at every seat, 2 with the red/blue leather seats, which has USB at every seat but only 240v at the tables, and 2 with the moquette/leather interior with USB at every seat but no 240v at all!