(24 Aug 2022, 6:38 pm)Storx wrote Personally I think the minibus PVR will be 12 once it's all finished including the 4 on the 57/57A. The fact they're getting 14 MMC's which is just too many for the current services excluding the 57/57A and the fact no doubt they're heading to Ashington since the new Blyth depot has no space for minibuses.
What goes who knows but believe the PVR's are:
57/57A: 4
46/46A/51/51A: 5
553: 2
555: 1
55: 3
Personally I think the 46/46A might survive in some form (it has subsidies connected to it, with the 51 which I believe is fully subsidised), it's the 55 I'm less confident about, ditch the 55 and you've got the PVR 12.
Yeah I think it could go either way tbh, either they'll keep most of them or ditch them and use the MMC's elsewhere. Part of me does think it could work quite well if they interwork the 51 and 57 at Whitley Bay, cause then you've got a bus going to Ashington. Whether they would extend the 57A to Ashington and 51A through to Blyth so that buses could do a half hourly circuit across all three idk, would be nice to see. I imagine that would be a PVR of 11. Alternatively I wonder if the 46 and 553 could interwork somehow? Certainly I'd agree the 55 is the most likely candidate to be withdrawn.