(12 Jan 2014, 4:56 pm)dans_bus_photos wrote You right i dont know, but surely that would be the logical thing to do though? as GNE are the ones who have decided to interwork the service after the councils have provided the funding for the amount of vehicles required for a stand alone service.
To be fair, GNE have started to interwork the services to improve the X35's reliability which will benefit passengers it's not been used to lower the PVR etc. It means that the 11 vehicles needed can be put to use to improve the service. I totally take your point that all the soon to be Fast Cats vehicles need to be upgraded otherwise it's not been used as it should, and hopefully as Citaro5284 suggests GNE will pay for the rest.