(21 Oct 2020, 10:03 pm)streetdeckfan wrote Yep, definitely looks like they're over compensating for the blandness of the Cobalts.

The nearside actually looks alright, but the offside is just too much. I personally think it would have looked better with the advertisement frames than with the map just chucked on the side

Overall though, it's not as shite as I expected!

(21 Oct 2020, 10:19 pm)JP6004 wrote I quite like the map but despise the advertisement frames. But I agree, massive improvement over the Cobalts...even without the torch 

(21 Oct 2020, 11:15 pm)streetdeckfan wrote I think if the map wasn't so big it would have looked a bit better, the fact it overlaps with the GNE logo and appears to be cut off by the windows makes it look like an afterthought.

(22 Oct 2020, 6:35 am)S813 FVK wrote Map cut off by the windows?   

Everything that needs to be seen can be, so not sure what your point is here.

(22 Oct 2020, 11:07 am)Ambassador wrote I don't mind the branding but as Dan has said if the aim of the Crusader is not to get people point to point - why the focus on the Seaside element of the route?

I mean it also terminates a whole 1 mile away from the beach but that's just picking

(22 Oct 2020, 11:07 am)Ambassador wrote I don't mind the branding but as Dan has said if the aim of the Crusader is not to get people point to point - why the focus on the Seaside element of the route?

I mean it also terminates a whole 1 mile away from the beach but that's just picking

(22 Oct 2020, 11:28 am)Storx wrote The, 'cleaner air for our city' is another thing you could mention aswell considering it spends about 7 minutes of the route in a city and some people in Gateshead really dislike the way they get merged into Newcastle which it's doing. Gatesheaad, Jarrow, Hebburn etc are definitely not part of Newcastle. It should be region really. That's just picking aswell tho tbf but wouldn't be surprised if some local picks it up.

(22 Oct 2020, 12:13 pm)JP6004 wrote I dont get the issue of advertising that the bus goes to shields? Surely that's the point of branding, to attract customers and to highlight places it serves.

Also with high pollution in the city centre and the impending CAZ, advertising that it's a low emission euro 6 bus, shows that GNE are committed to play their part in tackling pollution in the city centre...

Going by the past few comments, people dont like the fact it advertises sections of the route or the low emissions?

(22 Oct 2020, 12:31 pm)Storx wrote It's the term our city that some people on the Gateshead side people might have issue with. Some people in Gateshead don't like being lumped into Newcastle, it's not 'our city' to them. The problems with the pollution are on the Gateshead site of the water as much as the Newcastle side as that's where the pollution station is so the LEZ isn't only there to help Newcastle it's there for Gateshead aswell which isn't part of the 'city'.

There's a reason why local media advertisements always uses our region and it's for this exact reason. There's a real barrier down the river and anything south of it doesn't like being part of Newcastle and it's all down to the fact of in the old days anything North of the river is Northumberland and anything South is County Durham.

It's nothing to do with the low emissions.

(22 Oct 2020, 12:38 pm)JP6004 wrote Gateshead is a town not a city. I'd imagine they are just referring to Newcastle when they say city.

(22 Oct 2020, 2:08 pm)streetdeckfan wrote But Newcastle isn't a city, it's a toon

(22 Oct 2020, 2:08 pm)streetdeckfan wrote But Newcastle isn't a city, it's a toon

(22 Oct 2020, 12:31 pm)Storx wrote It's the term our city that some people on the Gateshead side people might have issue with. Some people in Gateshead don't like being lumped into Newcastle, it's not 'our city' to them. The problems with the pollution are on the Gateshead site of the water as much as the Newcastle side as that's where the pollution station is so the LEZ isn't only there to help Newcastle it's there for Gateshead aswell which isn't part of the 'city'.

There's a reason why local media advertisements always uses our region and it's for this exact reason. There's a real barrier down the river and anything south of it doesn't like being part of Newcastle and it's all down to the fact of in the old days anything North of the river is Northumberland and anything South is County Durham.

It's nothing to do with the low emissions.

(22 Oct 2020, 6:48 pm)Dan wrote I don’t think everyone is quite as petty as you’re suggesting. Some people, maybe, but I don’t think it’s as big an issue as you make out.

I’ve plenty of friends who live in Gateshead who have no problems with Newcastle being associated as their closest city. At university they’d describe themselves as being “from Newcastle” rather than “from Gateshead”, as nobody knows where the latter is.


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(22 Oct 2020, 6:48 pm)Dan wrote I don’t think everyone is quite as petty as you’re suggesting. Some people, maybe, but I don’t think it’s as big an issue as you make out.

I’ve plenty of friends who live in Gateshead who have no problems with Newcastle being associated as their closest city. At university they’d describe themselves as being “from Newcastle” rather than “from Gateshead”, as nobody knows where the latter is.


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(22 Oct 2020, 7:11 pm)ne14ne1 wrote Completely agree, it’s all Greater Newcastle really or part of a Newcastle City Region if it wasn’t for ridiculous old council boundaries & local politicians grasping onto their own little bit of power instead of becoming a single authority area. 

The majority of joe public won’t nip pick over something written on the side of a bus, and most would say they’re from Newcastle anyway. I know people from Tynemouth, Blyth & Cramlington who say they’re from Newcastle, and Whickham’s postal address includes Newcastle upon Tyne despite being south of the river. So yeah, I really don’t think it’s an issue either.

(22 Oct 2020, 7:14 pm)JP6004 wrote When lived in burnopfield, had gateshead telephone number, derwentside council, in county Durham, but address was Newcastle 

(22 Oct 2020, 7:36 pm)streetdeckfan wrote When we lived in Chopwell (eugh, the embarrasment), we had a Newcastle address, Gateshead Council, Consett phone number, and if you travelled 1 mile north you were in Northumberland, and 1 mile south you were in County Durham. 

Isn't Burnopfield also an 01207 area giving it a Consett phone number?

(22 Oct 2020, 7:44 pm)JP6004 wrote Mine was 0191 4XXXXXX

(22 Oct 2020, 6:48 pm)Dan wrote I don’t think everyone is quite as petty as you’re suggesting. Some people, maybe, but I don’t think it’s as big an issue as you make out.

I’ve plenty of friends who live in Gateshead who have no problems with Newcastle being associated as their closest city. At university they’d describe themselves as being “from Newcastle” rather than “from Gateshead”, as nobody knows where the latter is.


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(22 Oct 2020, 7:11 pm)ne14ne1 wrote Completely agree, it’s all Greater Newcastle really or part of a Newcastle City Region if it wasn’t for ridiculous old council boundaries & local politicians grasping onto their own little bit of power instead of becoming a single authority area. 

The majority of joe public won’t nip pick over something written on the side of a bus, and most would say they’re from Newcastle anyway. I know people from Tynemouth, Blyth & Cramlington who say they’re from Newcastle, and Whickham’s postal address includes Newcastle upon Tyne despite being south of the river. So yeah, I really don’t think it’s an issue either.

(25 Oct 2020, 5:41 pm)S813 FVK wrote 10 regs are listed as being repainted at Read Commercials at Accrington rather than Blackburn. Presume the use of two suppliers is to help speed the process up a bit?

(25 Oct 2020, 5:52 pm)Michael wrote Must of misread!

Ye hopefully, I would imagine, all the of the Quaylink Versa's will get done, there's currently 23 branded.

(27 Oct 2020, 12:16 pm)Storx wrote Has it been said that the Q1 and Q2 are being redone?

(27 Oct 2020, 12:51 pm)Michael wrote Don't think so but I think they will, would be daft not too.

(27 Oct 2020, 2:02 pm)Storx wrote Yeah true, unless they're next in line for electric vehicles. God knows tbh.

(22 Oct 2020, 7:11 pm)streetdeckfan wrote And let's be real, who really wants to say they're from Gateshead. It's almost as bad as admitting you're from Sunderland