(08 Feb 2023, 1:26 am)deanmachine wrote Are the electrics not being shared out to other local authority areas? Newcastle already has plenty of electric stuff, with more to come, depriving Sunderland and South Tyneside for yet more in Newcastle doesn't look good for tax payers who are footing the bill for most of these buses.i don't think its a good look for stagecoach where 40 brand new gas buses go to one depot and barely a decade later they are being replaced by another 40 vehicles.
plus at this moment Newcastle is the only area to have a CAZ zone. SNE are still using 04/05/06 plate ALX 300s that aren't compliant,
instead of a convoluted affair of putting new buses in service at Sunderland to cascade some 11 plate E300s to Newcastle to then cascade some ALXs to Stockton to then cascade newer E300s back to Newcastle.
instead you could divert a small number to walkergate and slatyford allowing those vehicles to transfer in to Sunderland arriving with the 30 other new electrics.
plus I'm not sure if local authority have been paying for electric vehicles so shouldn't bother tax payers, only fare paying passengers