(05 Aug 2018, 12:38 pm)omnicity4659 wrote Would you prefer more older vehicles being reinstated to enable larger batches to be sent in for repaint?
They're always repainting buses into the new livery at Thornton's, however cost and fleet availability keeps this down to about two at a time. At present, the Geminis are having additional work done (interiors) so this will lengthen the process.
The new Arriva brand is already rolled out on a huge scale across the UK and Europe, however the North East faces the above issues.
Come on Tom. Don't try and put this on me - I'm not the one making the business decisions here!
I don't think anybody expects them to repaint the whole fleet in 5 minutes, but an "as and when" basis seems to be poor project management at the very least.
What could be done in 5 minutes (well, perhaps a weekend!), is a remove and replace exercise on the Arriva logos. You'll recall GNE received some criticism for this, but indeed they ran a remove and replace project within about two months of the new logo being live.