(22 Oct 2023, 9:20 am)Unber43 wrote I do quite like. the Hybrids we have now, I like the eletric move off then into diesel. However I feel like the masssive issue is the reliability of the the fleet especially in the past two years it seems like its fell off a cliff, and there is probably two reasons for that, theyre getting up there in ages and the route the 16/16A/X5/X15 have some hills that you crawl up in some of them, some shoot up but not most.
9 being off at a time is a joke.
Also whats going to happen with the Durham Diamond Branding and the Xlines Yellow with them all being withdrawn?
To be honest the hybrids have been put on overkill routes, I'm sure hybrid buses are intended for short hop journey routes like the gateshead locals or the 1 that they were ordered for.
In regards to the branding, half of the X-Lines routes have been shot off and they haven’t bothered to replace them so I can’t see them repainting anything into the X-lines yellow. Durham Diamond branding will probably go too, when the Sunderland district buses were cascaded around they never bothered to repaint the other buses allocated, same with the orbit so I don’t see them repainting different buses to the same branding not anytime soon at least.