(31 Jan 2023, 7:45 pm)Storx wrote Seems like it would be a lot of effort, be interesting to see if it goes back up or they could go on something like the 16 instead which does Chester Road which arguably is the sort of place they'd be good for.

Guessing no doubt the E's got chosen is so everyone get's a bit of the pie so South Tyneside can't moan they got nothing since everywhere is covered.

43/44/45/47 - Northumberland (scraping the barrel admitably), North Tyneside and Newcastle
E1/E2/E6 - South Tyneside / Sunderland
21 - Newcastle / Gateshead / Durham

Oh aye no doubt - it looks like the E's will stay half hourly (10 mins combined), leaves 11 buses left unallocated.


I was hoping for the my local route, the 23 (6 PVR) to be allocated some, as the 16 already uses newer buses (well I say newer, half of them sound horrendous and sound like they're about 30 years old), keeping most of the gas buses on their current routes.


The 16 has a 7 PVR


I take it, it'll be the E300's which will leave Sunderland.



E1/2/6 - 9 PVR
20 - 5 PVR
23 - 6 PVR

That leaves no spares


Hopefully they go for the same features as GNE - however they still have the WIFI turned off on the gas buses..........


Edit:

I know its just been announced, but does anyone know when the new buses will start to arrive?
Wonder if orders have already gone in.