(25 Jun 2014, 4:28 pm)aureolin wrote Probably the same reason they bought two batches of streetlites as midibuses last year, when the previous trend had been Versas.
A mere trial to see which provides better results.
Interestingly, Scania L94s were purchased the following year - suggesting that GNE preferred the Scania L94 over the Volvo B7RLE.
I think we'll find GNE will be going back to Optare for any future orders though..!