(27 Mar 2018, 3:45 am)omnicity4659 wrote To be fair though, it's barely going to impact on pollution. With the 308 vehicles listed for E6 conversion, they'll probably be cleaner than the B5LHs.

Not quite Euro 6 conversion.

Believe they (and others in the region) have received funding to fit a SCRT system of sorts to a number of their buses operating in key areas across the region (South Tyneside, Newcastle, and somewhere else), which, on paper, means that the buses meet the emission standards of a Euro 6 bus.

Depending on the terms and conditions of the contract, this could see them attached to a set of routes for the foreseeable future.

Can see the frustration, and I wonder if this move would have happened regardless of whether they had received this grant?

I would hope that Arriva are strongly considering upgrading the customer specification to MAX again on these vehicles. It feels like a lot of what's going on with Yorkshire stripping newer vehicles from the North East at the moment is coming at the expense of the customers. After all, why should customers on the 17 have W-reg Cadets reinstated, when the alternative was planned to be a much newer bus?