(07 Jul 2015, 2:55 pm)Jimmi wrote It is a bit rubbish having 'frequenta' on the 3/3A/3B when parts of the routes only have a bus every half hour.This has all the makings of a horrendous mash up of brands. virtually every vehicle Darlington has will be dedicated which is OK if you have high availability.
Did wonder about the Darts and I highly doubt they will become 'Frequenta' and it will look rather terrible if they continue to make up a large amount of the allocation on the 9/10 especially as I think Frequenta buses will have WiFi and I highly doubt they will bother fitting WiFi to these old sheds. One problem is if you don't put the Darts on the likes of the 9/10 what can you put them on, you can only really have them on the 8/8A and they were previously allocated to this service but I imagine part of the reason they were booted of this service because they were rather unreliable and other than the 8/8A they can only really be used on services that will fall into the Frequenta brand.
Given the Solos are go anywhere substitutes with regular outings on X66, X26, 1/5/19, and anything else where the frequent services are robbed to support vehicles shortages elsewhere, Frequenta will become a very confusing brand.
As for the Darts, they are now 16 years old, surely the word scrap must enter into the equation. plan for their removal must be somewhere in the offing.