(27 Jan 2024, 8:39 am)tyresmoke wrote They’re not Streetdeck they’re Volvo B5TL on the Coastliner network. Given First Sheffield’s experience of Streetdecks they wouldn’t last two minutes on a demanding route like the X93. They’re city buses not interurban machines
The demonstrator they trialled on the X93 a few years back was bad enough, struggled getting up the hills round Robin Hoods Bay. https://flic.kr/p/Y1cfRV
It's debatable if the B5TLs are even a good fit for the Coastliner routes, although it seems nothing on the market is particularly good for the likes of Coastliner and the X93 as the B9TLs were, supposedly the Coastliner drivers don't particularly like the E400MMC that works out of Malton at times.
I'd also personally prefer Pulsars to StreetLite's on the X4 as if nothing else, Pulsars feel a bit more airy whereas Lites feel a bit more condensed and are horrifically stuffy on hot days, not helped by the positioning of opening windows all at the front of the bus and don't open particularly far either, thought I was gonna pass out sat at the back on an X4 riding a Lite with a standing load on a summers day.