(04 Apr 2015, 12:22 pm)Jimmi wrote Agreed, some totally slate Arriva on here. When Arriva do something wrong people go on and on about the topic but if Go North East did the same thing nothing would be said. For example when the ex demonstrator EcoCitys entered service on the 21 people went on and on about a bit of air coming through a gap in the doors and it went on and on about it including people who have never been on that bus then a few days later I posted a picture of a WTX Citaro with part of the door sticking out on the breeze which could cause harm to people and the only reply was "it didn't affect my journey" sorry but how is this okay.
Everytime a MAX and Sapphire isn't on the service it's branded for there is mass complaints on here and yet I had a manky old President on the 309 without the advertised features and this is a booked working and this is okay but I bet people would complain about a non Sapphire bus on the morning 7 dupe and you wonder why gtom went off his nut about the 21!
It's a bit like the 'Coast & Country' debate yesterday. Discussing why 'Coast' was in the name of a brand that doesn't serve the coast was considered as over thinking and a lot of fuss, yet that wasn't the case when me and others were slating the decision not to refurbish the green flooring on the Arriva Omnicity MAX refurbs.
As it turned out, someone posted about the impracticality of doing so (the way it's laid + cost involved), which is good input into a debate. At the same time, I've no doubt in the coming weeks we'll find out why that brand has been named as such. We just don't know what goes on behind closed doors, but it doesn't mean we should avoid constructive debate on here. If you make a point, provide your argument behind it, then I can't see the problem. Nowt irritates me more than people posting that something is 'shocking' or 'rubbish', but then not providing anything to say why they think that.
I'd like to think that this applied to all operators, and not just Arriva and Metro, as often the case seems to be.