(28 Mar 2020, 12:41 pm)cbma06 wrote Since DB bought Arriva, why don’t there invest there money into the bus division, it’s because there only invest from uk paying customers into there own transport system into there own country and then asking for handouts from the uk government to improve buses and infrastructure in the uk, don’t forget originally there were only interested in the train side of Arriva and not the bus services, and now there can’t even give the bus side division away, stagecoach and Go Ahead have improved over the years rather than Arriva.
I prefer it when it was just United, even though there standards weren’t high but at least the standards were a lot better than it is today in the form of Arriva.
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I was talking more about from a perspective of a finanical point of view.
I do understand what your saying there but the pre-DB Arriva was a hell of a lot worse than the Arriva we have now, this is just a small number of things:
- East Lancs Citizens on Blyth Expresses which you couldn't sit in certain seats as they used to be wet from windows leaking.
- Ikarus' on the Blyth Expresses which used to have tape on the windows to force them to shut or it was freezing.
- Varios (even known they did have character).
- Metroriders, which often ended up on flagship routes which we're battered.
- P reg Olympians running Ashington Expresses.
- M reg Olympians running Berwick Expresses.
- N reg Prismas often running to Whitby / Scarborough.
- The ever so reliable Prestige fleet.
- Buses which still had interiors pre dating Arriva (1999) - some on flagship routes.
Arguably around here Stagecoach has the oldest fleet and are by far are the least innovate especially considering the routes they have in comparison to half of Arriva and GNE's routes which compete against the Metro or are rural routes.