(04 Feb 2020, 10:50 pm)Andreos1 wrote With the apparent absence of streetdeckfan and there not being much conversation at all from anyone... 

Reading an article on the Sunderland Echo website, I saw this image.


Right, slap bang in the middle, is a green Streetlite on the 78 - blinded up for 'Park Lane'.
Buses haven't been able to go up Park Lane since it was pedestrianised in the late 90s. Cars can only go on a small stretch of it. 
Why on earth is the bus destination showing somewhere it physically can't get to? 
Park Lane Interchange/Bus Station isn't Park Lane.
They're two different (all be it close) places.
The 21 doesn't show Prudhoe Place, the 29 doesn't show High St West, the 93 doesn't show Sunderland Road and the 71 doesn't show Newbottle St...

Are you missing me?  

I mean, I'm still here, but since I can't mention any of my 'go to' topics, there ain't really much to say!

I haven't even been at home recently to be able to travel on the unmentionable bus (I've been at my my grandparent's building a new kitchen, if anyone was interested). But I have seen that the 49s certainly do look a lot smarter with the vinyls removed, but perhaps a little too bare for my liking. Plus, I don't know if it's just my imagination, and I can't be bothered to look it up, but the 'swoop' seems to be quite a bit further forward than on the 2016 corporate livery and it looks quite awkward. Plus, the vinyls don't look like they've been removed very carefully, with patches of adhesive left all over, and on one what seems like a patch of paint missing.
I know they're not that old, and the paint is in fairly good condition, but they could do with a repaint in to the new corporate just to spruce them up a bit.