(24 Nov 2013, 11:15 pm)Adam Malarkey wrote That Answer is pretty simple and it would be down to the Increased Passenger Loadings Between Washington and Newcastle, As we learnt in 2011/12 the X1 wasn't coping whilst using Citaros due to the High Passenger Demand and again even with 6 Deckers it still struggled, so it got more Deckers. So it would make sense to use the B9's over the Citaros to prevent the same thing from happening again and thus making the Service Unreliable.
So what if the loadings aren't high enough between Washington and Sunderland to justify the use of Go North East's best double decker?
You said earlier that the 2A/2C could afford to be dropped in frequency - are you suggesting that the loadings aren't particularly high on these services? If so, why would you allocate a B9 instead?
Surely it makes more sense just to split the services so that the part which is doing better has the B9, while the part which isn't doing as great (but still very good, to justify a Merc) sticks with the lower capacity bus? Y'know, the current network.