(15 Jan 2023, 6:18 pm)Theboyle92 wrote Personally i think deptfords fleet needs some serious investment as a driver i think ive lost track of the amount of time ive broke down especially behind the wheel of a versa with various engine/electrical and gearbox faults also a couple of the prince bishop streetlights are starting give up the go quite daunting and scary pulling out onto the Houghton cut in rush hour doing 5-10mph foot to the floor because of faults apart from the 2 X-line street decks the last new buses were the 68 plate solos 726-728 and even them are starting to fail, would be nice to see the e-citaro or even a voltra yutong trialled on the 700/33/39a/b or even a 60 if they want to get bums on seats and more people travelling need to show the public they mean business and having buses constantly breaking down does not look good.I think the whole of Sunderlands fleets failing apart, the Versas look yellow and dingy inside, a lot of the interior lights don't work, and seat are rock solid. The Drifters seats are so quite hard and 5369/5370/5372 all struggle to climb hills. 69 just screams the whole bus journey. I really loved the citaros, I would pick a Citaro over any GNE vehicle. The Ex-Saltwell park seats are particularly bad.
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Honestly, they should make a new order for the 20/2/2A/60 as these are always quite busy and seem the best routes to get new buses.
Prince Bishops should go onto the 35 & 61. Drifters can go into Spare roles at Deptford or go onto the 39 making it every 20 mins service. 8339-8346 could go onto 49/49A with a refurb, or that could be what 5369-76 go onto.