(21 Feb 2020, 3:46 pm)WheelBus1986 wrote On one hand, all credit to the team for putting up all the breakdowns and issues. but the normal "customer" on the comments section just love to poke fun at GNE.
There were 5 breakdowns one day and the comments just kept rolling about how awful GNE were. No one cared that out of a fleet of 700+ vehicles only 5 were VOR which is a tiny tiny percentage of the overall fleet and is credit to good maintenance or lack of them reporting breakdowns on SM
(21 Feb 2020, 4:01 pm)streetdeckfan wrote Some of the comments people put up are absolutely pathetic, but they make for some good light entertainment!Some of the comments are from people who don’t live on the route or never use buses at all, yet like to get the attention of other “genuine” passengers. I refer to these as trolls but unable to call them out.
The thing is, GNE could have no breakdowns, and run every bus exactly to timetable and people would still complain saying it turned up late!
I mean, as everyone knows I do love a good complaint, but only when it's deserved! If I complained on Twitter every time the X21 was over 2 minutes late, GNE would have blocked me!
(21 Feb 2020, 10:39 am)streetdeckfan wrote Obviously from that perspective there needs to be a reason, but I was responding from more of the perspective of the non-enthusiast that you were mentioning.If they’d come up with a new Northern Coaching livery and brand, I could see the point, if they’d have based it on an old coaching livery from the past, I could see the point in that as well.
I do agree with your point about the timing of the re-paints, although with the StreetDeck delay I'd imagine there could be some spare slots as vehicles may not be able to be off the road long enough for a repaint!
(21 Feb 2020, 6:43 pm)Wybus wrote But I see little point in using these old names, a different one on each vehicle, especially ones like Charterplan which has no connection to the north east. A passenger will just think a load of different firms have turned up to do the rail replacement or the contact work.
(22 Feb 2020, 10:58 am)streetdeckfan wrote And when a plain white coach turns up they'll think it's just a large faceless corporation doing it!
I'm sure the image they want to portray to passengers is that they are a small local firm doing it.
(23 Feb 2020, 6:49 pm)Dan wrote In terms of a bus, I don't think there's anything out there on the market that's suitable for the X9/X10 that won't require replacement after a few years. In recent years, Go North East have had 5-litre, 7-litre and 9-litre engined buses running on these routes, and all after a few years have started facing reliability issues.
It's not too bad a business model to have - run buses for a few years on the X9/X10 then replace them once they start having issues (cascading onto less demanding routes). Ensures X9/X10 always stay at the forefront of innovation and other services reap the benefits too.
The only thing that could feasibly operate the X9/X10 services without issue would be interdeck coaches, which are a) very expensive, and b) unsuitable for the 'local' sections of the route.
Realistically I don't think Go North East would be considering replacement of these buses this year if it wasn't for the Newcastle CAZ coming into effect from January 2021. It's unusual to see more than one of these buses off the road, and now there's two dedicated spare buses (6334 & 6335), one would presume the allocation of single-deck buses will be a lot less frequent.
(23 Feb 2020, 8:09 pm)streetdeckfan wrote Continuing on from the discussion over on the Arriva discussion...
You mention that they wouldn't be considering replacement if it wasn't for the CAZ, am I right in thinking that would that be because the B5s will need replaced shortly anyway and it makes more sense financially to update them early to cascade the B5s elsewhere rather than update other routes that need it with new vehicles and be stuck with the B5s once they're replaced later down the line?
(23 Feb 2020, 9:01 pm)cbma06 wrote When new buses arrive for the X9/X10 , The B5s from the X9/X10 supposedly be going on the X84/X85 and rebranded as Xlines
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(23 Feb 2020, 9:41 pm)S830OFT wrote Will the Red Arrows B9s be reallocated to the Crusader? Also if they don't get enough Euro 6 vehicles avaible, would it be a possibility to revise the 26 to be Gateshead to Shields only, with the 27 only crossing to Newcastle. End result reducing the PVR by 1.
(23 Feb 2020, 9:48 pm)streetdeckfan wrote I'm sure it was in one of the previous proposals, either that or my memory is worse than I thought!
(23 Feb 2020, 11:37 pm)Rapidsnap wrote The proposals have undergone many changes since they were first announced.
(23 Feb 2020, 9:41 pm)S830OFT wrote Will the Red Arrows B9s be reallocated to the Crusader? Also if they don't get enough Euro 6 vehicles avaible, would it be a possibility to revise the 26 to be Gateshead to Shields only, with the 27 only crossing to Newcastle. End result reducing the PVR by 1.I thought the 6/12/12A would be a good shout for Red arrow B9s , However a rumour has it that 5463-5480 are going on crusaders and deptford to get the citaros
(24 Feb 2020, 2:30 pm)streetdeckfan wrote How long has 5453 had that vinyl on the bottom of the front windscreen?Think a few buses have recieved promos on the front windscreens over the last few days, saw a few buses going round with a yellow vinyl advertising something under the destination screen on Saturday
It looks bloody horrendous!
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(24 Feb 2020, 11:44 am)Citaro5326 wrote I thought the 6/12/12A would be a good shout for Red arrow B9s , However a rumour has it that 5463-5480 are going on crusaders and deptford to get the citarosHope we are not going from a suggestion of upgrading the Crusader to double deck and then going downhill by 'upgrading' to a streetlite instead.
(24 Feb 2020, 11:44 am)Citaro5326 wrote I thought the 6/12/12A would be a good shout for Red arrow B9s , However a rumour has it that 5463-5480 are going on crusaders and deptford to get the citaros
(24 Feb 2020, 3:40 pm)ifm001 wrote Hope we are not going from a suggestion of upgrading the Crusader to double deck and then going downhill by 'upgrading' to a streetlite instead.