(24 Nov 2013, 11:19 pm)Dan wrote 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.
So Daniel do you think the 56 justifies use of "Go North East's best double decker" Between Concord and Sunderland where Passenger Numbers are lower on that Section of the Route except for Sunderland Home Games?. And I do think that using a B9 is Justifiable when it'll be picking up Passengers from the X1 Between Newcastle and Washington and again with the 2A/2C/4 and 8 Passengers going from Washington to Sunderland and the fact that when the X1 was split 3 Years Ago it Struggled to cope Capacity wise when using a Mixture of Citaros/B9's, Do you not think you'd would be Downgrading that Section of the Route in which it Struggled by using a Citaro on the Proposed X2.