(15 Dec 2013, 7:24 pm)Dan wrote When it's a required vehicle?
Fair enough if it was only a spare (as would have been the case if "SimpliCity" only included services 39 and 42), and that way it could have been used on other services when not required on either of the aforementioned services in the "SimpliCity" network.
Had that of been the case, I'd have been all for leaving 8319 in its current centenary livery... As it's not, seems a little silly to leave it in that livery.
Arriva was mentioned in a previous post...
Arriva and Go North East are two completely different companies. As most of Arriva's network is not 'branded' in any way whatsoever and the majority of their services are allocated corporate liveried vehicles, their customers do not familiarise their bus service with a specific name or identity like Go North East's passengers do.
Yeah, I know they are different companies.
Having 8319 stay in the expensive centenary livery isn't going to cause any harm, isn't going to cause confusion nor take anything away from the Simplicity brand, particularly when there are any amount of other red (or whatever other colour) running on and off route.
If those vinyls are going, then I presume every other trace of the hundred year anniversary is being removed from every other single vehicle it is on, across the fleet too?
Quite a lot of expense and work, that could be viewed as unneccesary.