(19 Jul 2020, 1:48 pm)Storx wrote I understand your point here but personally I disagree. It's all good for those who live on the bus route who constantly gets the new buses ie. the 21, X1 etc but if your one of the unlucky people who live on one of the routes who don't ie. 6, 25 you end up having a worse service but paying the same fare. At least if everything is uniform there's no first class and second class services. It can leave a bit of a bitter taste when you pay more for a worse service which at the same time is less infrequent. You just have to look at Birtley for an example of that, one side has a 7 minute service with new Streetdecks, the other side a slow 30 minute service with old Omnicity's without any discount fares which exist for the Angel.

At least if you travel on Stagecoach you know whether you get an 07 plate Enviro or a 13 plate Enviro the level of service is the same or thereabouts. It's no co-incidence that GNE's core network is doing well but the rest of it is falling apart with constant changes and service reductions whereas Stagecoach has pretty much been stable.

So you're saying you'd rather they didn't upgrade any route than keep upgrading a select few?

It makes sense to keep upgrading the routes that make money, the ones that can justify the the expense, then those vehicles which are only a few years old can get cascaded to routes that may not be able to justify it. 

And do you not think if other routes could justify a 7 minute frequency with new StreetDecks they would have them? There's a reason certain routes are flagships, it's not because they handpicked routes to spend money on, it's because they're the most popular routes!