(26 Apr 2016, 6:07 pm)Crusader wrote I haven't had the chance to see the Red Kite since it changed...does anyone have any views on how it is coping for capacity with the mixed single/double deck allocation? Does reliability seem to have improved?
Reliability seems to have marginally improved - but as I predicted the 47 gets full to the brim with passengers. I was on it the other night and we couldn't let a buggy on (or anyone else for that matter) because there were passengers standing from one end of the bus to the other. We weren't even at the Metro too...
My Auntie also gets the 47 in the mornings and at peak times and she stands every single day on a streetlite, and she also said that in the morning a driver on the 47 went the wrong way at Swalwell Roundabout and went down to the rugby club instead, made her late for work.