(18 May 2016, 8:44 pm)Malarkey wrote Yet we have B7TL Presidents allocated to the Services on a daily basis, think the elderly residents of nearby Birtley would jump for joy if a Solar turned up instead of a Double Decker, fewer complaints for GNE to deal with.
I'd much rather have a Solar over a President, too but I think it was said that the B7s were allocated over the solars was because of the shorter wheelbase for getting around the estates? If so, I think that's another reason why Solars wouldn't be suitable for the routes (not suggesting for one second that they can't operate the routes as they have in the past).