(11 Jan 2015, 6:36 pm)Dan wrote I don't think this provides any justice to the point you're making though. Let me turn the question around and let you answer it - why are these new buses coming now, and not when the OK1 was operational?

You know as well as I do that a business case has to be built for investment into a service. A brand new service launched in Feb 2012 in response to a competitive move by another operator would never justify brand new vehicles straight away. The fact that it has grown from nothing into a solid commercial operation justifying investment in just 2 years from its inception would suggest that it has done very well. Of course it had to be launched with half decent stock, which is why 4 Pulsars were sourced and not something of a lower value...