(11 Oct 2015, 6:06 pm)B10man wrote Away from speculation at the moment due to the relatively last minute annoucement that the 11/96 is no longer going to be toon link livery bus nothing has been confirmed and discussion still under way as to what to find for the 11/96 services. It could be the blue mercs but its unlikely.Didn't mention the 27s or 58.
Nothing is going to happen with the service 10's there are not going to put streetlites on them or change the service. Reason, because 10s,10A,10B all work fine the way they are. The 27s is not going to get double deckers any time soon niether is the 58s.
It's more a business P.O.V. If GNE could offer a more streamlined and in some ways better (or not for a few) service with an increased frequency which could be used to bite back at Stagecoach for their extension of the 22 to Willington and Cobalt; and even more so at a reduced cost with the Greenside and Blackhall Mill journeys using Streetlites whilst the Prudhoe / Hexham journeys keep B9s for capacity reasons, then it's a no brainer. Overtime, the costs would even reduce slightly owing to the efficiency of the 7x Streetlites and
the PVR during Monday to Saturday at least, wouldn't change. More so, it would even give GNE an opportunity to enhance the Red Kite 47 and even allow the 2x B7s at CLS to act as proper spares with 2x B9s joining the B5LHs.