(17 Mar 2015, 5:59 pm)MarcTheA4 wrote Should maybe get the critical folks to do the following.
A) Order new buses (having completed the necessary criteria, elimination of other vehicles and finalised everything)
B) Train the staff to drive them (something which costs more money, half of an hour's pay I believe)
C) Brand them (which will mean bringing outside contractors in to put the vinyls on, more money)
D) Put them in service (which, yet again, can be hard if there is a fault or not all of them have arrived by a specific date)
E) Handle the predictable complaints that will come forward from the general public complaining about smaller buses being used on such a service as the X66.
Not easy, is it? The buses may not be too appealing, personally I think the one shown in Dan's photos is fantastic, but it's a bus that will likely transport you from A to B in the future. Be grateful for that, if not for its appearance.
Everyone has different tastes, so they will comment accordingly. It'd be a boring world if we all agreed with each other and shared the same tastes. I don't get why that means they should do anything that you've listed? Feedback is a valuable tool to any company, and it should be taken for what it is.
I personally think it looks great, and has some nice touches (e.g. red stitching and accent lighting), but I don't think the interior wall panelling matches the rest of the (very smart) interior. I'm hardly going to say it does just to score a few brownie points.
I said previously that I'll see for myself... I may change my opinion, but on the other hand I might not. Whoopdee-do!