(12 Jul 2020, 11:39 pm)Storx wrote You can have rose tinted glasses on but Arriva withdrew the crap that came the other way pretty much immediately.

Volvo B10BLE's and Darts one way
Leyland Olympians and Prestiges the other.

You really need to look behind vehicles once in awhile. When your bashing Arriva all the time, you really should compare the network from now and 10 year ago and you'll realise who's butchered their's the most especially in Tyne and Wear and Northumberland. Then at the same look at all the Nexus contracts and who's bus routes they originally were or are. You'll be surprised. Hats out to the marketing department of who wins both those as you do a good job, credit where it's due.

Yea arrives offering still bad 10 years later 

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(12 Jul 2020, 11:43 pm)streetdeckfan wrote I mean, they seem to refurbish them then just forget about them.
What makes me laugh is the 'upgraded' vehicles they put on the X46. Imagine if GNE gave the B7 Geminis a refurb and put them on an X-Lines route

Yea the citaros look a bit tiresome now. However they do seem to have gone for the youngest, high spec vehicles for Xlines. Obviously 6336 & 6337 are older, they still decent for the spares