(02 Feb 2024, 10:26 pm)Storx wrote Does anyone know if the X20 is tendered for Deckers? I just find it a bit strange how a bus route which wasn't sustainable at all on a commercial basis, now suddenly needs Deckers on it. It's going from one extreme to the other.

Surely the Enviro 200 MMC's which are going from pillar to post lately could've done it instead with the B5TL's being at Riverside or Consett who are both struggling with Decker's lately.

The whole issue is that Derwentside is rota'd and interworked around the X30/X31 due to the low height decker bridge around Ellison Road yet, Riverside are having to make do with wholly unsuitable vehicles for the X21 and hardly no cover for the X10 other than 6377.

There's a reason why Arriva Ashington have had E400 / E400MMC on the X14/X15/X18/X20 and X21/X22.

Surely any inefficiencies restructuring the Derwentside network to release E400MMC's to Riverside would be balanced by a reduction in lost mileage and increase in passenger confidence.