(11 Oct 2024, 6:28 pm)Storx wrote The X15 and X18 also need something less than 3 year old aswell... The B9TL's at Blyth is an absolutely horrific idea aswell. Let's take away the most reliable vehicles at a depot which can't keep buses on the road as it is and replace them with the most unreliable vehicles in the fleet.
If you're going to do this.
6x B9TL -> Durham
6x 16 Plate MMC's -> Ashington
4x 72 Plate MMC's -> Redcar
Least Ashington gain some more deckers which they badly need in the process and is a fair compromise.
Because Durham really needs to replace tatty, knackered old vehicles with even more tatty, knackered old vehicles. We might not have many fast routes but we have some pretty hilly ones and it would be nice to have some buses that don’t feel like they need passengers to get out and give them a push.