RE: September Service Changes
(05 Sep 2021, 6:52 pm)MurdnunoC wrote How appropriate, you post like a cow.
Ah name calling, maturity is on point.
(05 Sep 2021, 6:55 pm)L469 YVK wrote But what if we looked at Arriva land and before you think I'm going to have a dig at them, I'd actually support them of they did such practice.
Lets say Arriva wanted to introduce and evening & Sunday X20 service to Ashington only and lets say Jesmond ran it using a Streetlite interworking with another service whereas the daytime service was run using a brand new Sapphire or Arriva Express spec double decker.
If Arriva ran the service using a StreetLite as opposed to a full spec decker, that would make sense given the commercial risk and uncertainty.
GNE have experimented with the late evening X30 journeys and as they've now been established and in conjunction with changes to other interworking patterns, it will be run using XLines spec deckers 7 days per week.
Likewise with the X5, if evening & Sunday passenger numbers grew to an extent that a bigger bus was required, then they'd no doubt try forming a StreetLite or decker operation in conjunction with other changes.
Tbh when I saw it it did have around 20 passengers on. I don't necessarily think it need to be a double decker, maybe a streetlites, or maybe just a high spec Solo but it should be advertised like it was with the 78.
