(18 Oct 2020, 12:31 pm)Storx wrote No-one sane would travel on the 1A from end to end it takes way too long and you can just change in Newcastle as you said anyway. It's made even worse that it travels through some of the less pleasant places in North East so it can't be even made up by the scenary etc (X18).

I've only used the Mercedes buses once since their refurb so can't really remember how uncomfortable they are but they can't be worse than Urban 90's or the rear seats on the VDL Gemini 2's (think they're Esteban Ciclo) both of which literally has padding which is about 2cm thick. The Little Coaster Solo's Esteban Civic's (which are used on 4 of the seats of the VDL Gemini 2's aswell) seats are up there aswell but not as bad.