It's difficult to envisage coaches ever making a return to service work given the DDA regulations and then the impact this could have on timings; it takes time now with conventional low floor vehicles.

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The issue of new fleet is a concern as well. Obviously it's speculation and ideas but it all appears to evolve around the Northumbria area. Granted the routes discussed could well be sone of the profitable ones but my concern, being based on Teeside and a regular user of the X93, is that we end up with the cast offs should new fleet be acquired. We've had the experience before and it never worked.