(02 Oct 2022, 9:18 pm)Unber43 wrote I agree, It must have been a big upgrade for services like the 25/28/29 getting new Streetlites with extra capacity USB's Wifi over some old 13 year old Versa's.well, it works both ways where the 62/63 services in Newcastle was nearly always newish E400s now it feels like whatever is spare these days. there seems to be a core of 7 MMCs from start of the day to the end of the day but i have seen E200s, various 300 models both E and ALX and various E400s anything from 2008 models and hybrids to at rare times and 69 reg MMC.
And a drop from Streetlites to Versas is a big aswell, goes from leather seats, wood flooring high capacity to awfully discoloured interior.
Its like if the 39/40 who are allocated brand new E400 MMC suddenly start being allocated ALX400's, no one is going to like that.
71 service varies wildly Aswell the common allocation is ALX/E300 but E200s are common with at rare times various 400s/MMCs. but i think we are missing the point here.
why would SNE waste money by keeping MMCs in a depot where they were delivered to when another depot is paying fines/tolls for vehicles that aren't CAZ compliant when the simple straightforward solution is to do the swap and whenever newer vehicles do arrive look at the situation and reevaluate the situation