(20 Feb 2016, 12:27 pm)Adrian wrote Really? I get to see the 7 come and go most of the day, and I'd say the allocations are pretty good. Although the decision not to go 100% decker was daft.
I can't understand it. The frequency of services in and around Darlington town centre, it should be easy enough to double swap something, to get a more suitable bus on the 7.
It's the passengers I feel for. It's a long old route for the inevitable standees.
Been a fair few odd workings recently, even when you discount the Belmont Sapphire spares.
Problem with swapping something off another service is all the other services with full size buses is another route would get something unsuitable in return (Solo), probably the 5 as it is scheduled to depart around the same sort of time. Could have maybe taken an EcoCity off the 2 I suppose but still not ideal having a Solo on there.
It didn't seem like the 7 needed a full double decker allocation at the time the Enviro 400's entered service although the service does seem to be getting busier, hopefully it may go full double deck operation in the future...