(18 May 2016, 11:25 pm)Jimmi wrote There always seems to be at least B7TL President out on one of the Washington services when I've been over that way, usually the 82/82A from my observations. I'm imagining Washington have so many B7's free primarily as back ups for the X1. Is most of the complaints about the double deckers related to the low capacity downstairs? I would think this would be less of an issue on the likes of the 85 considering the downstairs capacity is similar to what you get on the MPD's. I sometimes used to hear grumblings from people on the Arriva Darlington 5/5A route in the past as one board used to be booked for a Enviro 400, so it doesn't seem to be just the people of Washington whinging about it.London and Oxford Aves are in Donwell, Washington.
Going off topic slightly, but I've been on the 23 twice in recent months and on both occasions I've got the JH Coaches board on a Washington bound journey and there is somewhere on the route (think it's either London Avenue or Oxford Avenue) and on both occasions the Primo used on the service has had great difficulty squeezing through here due to some people who seem to think it's perfectly alright to park a van on one side of the road with a car parked on the opposite side of the road not much further forward than the van, the road.
There hasn't been a bus round there since the old school minibuses on the w5/w6 many moons ago.
Spookily enough, parked cars caused chaos then too.
From your description of the parked vehicles, that matches the situation seen regularly on Dorset Avenue.