(30 May 2020, 3:46 pm)peter wrote I believe it was said 9 of the new Streetdecks would be going to Oxford. If I remember correctly the original order was for 31 which has now been reduced to 22. If the values I have down are correct the current PVRs of the X31/45/56 and X47/70/71 are 13 and 9 respectively = 22, so if those values are right that would mean there are no spare Streetdecks available to be allocated to the X21 instead.

Actually, I don't think it was specified that all of those 9 would be StreetDecks, he just said the double decker order was reduced by 9. So unless it's been confirmed additionally that they're all StreetDecks then it's still speculation. And it was only mentioned that one would be going to Oxford for a trial, he said 'within the Go Ahead group'

I was thinking purely in terms of fuel economy and reliability though, am I right in thinking that the X21 would benefit from the newer vehicles over the likes of the X45/X46 with it running basically 10 miles of dual carriageway (A1 and A167).
Then again, that assumes that the newer vehicles are actually more efficient when not running start/stop