This morning I got on my regular 21. The driver opened the doors and immediately asked me 'can I ask you something because I know your a bus spotter (I prefer the term 'enthusiast'). I told him to go ahead (he had probably heard me talking to my mate on the front seats upstairs, he isn't an enthusiast like me and I bet he doesn't even listen to a word I say. He asked me 'are we getting rid of these (B5s), because apparently they cost a fortune to run'. I told him I didn't know, but the only new buses speculated to be new to Chester this year would be the new Limes. A look of dissappoinment came across his face. I spoke with my mate when we got upstairs, and he said he wasn't surprised the B5's (he used the actual word B5 so I think he had been listening) were possibly going to go (he doesn't understand how stuff gets debated and then finalised) because the stop announcements were a 'waste of money'.
He stopped again when I got off, and I spoke to him for about ten seconds. He said he had heard they were due to get B9s. I told him about the 'rough order list' for 2014, and I told him the rumour about the new B5s for the Red Arrows and those B9s onto the Pronto and PVR increase on a few different services.
It just seems strange for a driver to ask me if the B5s of all buses on the 21 of all services was going to get replaced.
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