(24 Sep 2023, 8:14 pm)streetdeckfan wrote The ex-london vehicles they've just brought up would be fine, if they didn't have the barebones London interiors.
Whack some decent seats, USB ports and maybe a few tables in and they'd be grand
This pretty much, I don't get the obsession with 'new' buses. I'd much rather have a B9 or DB300 over some of the newer crap. The problem is bar replacing a few seat covers, most of them haven't been touched in 10 year or in the case of the London ones, in full GoAhead London spec.
No average passenger could tell the age of the Arriva B7's as they had a decent refurb, similar to the ancient B7's which worked the 36 with Transdev because they had a full and decent upgrade inside.