(15 Nov 2020, 8:34 am)L469 YVK wrote That's what I was mentioning further above (obscured by font haha) but I do get where yourself and Dan are coming from in terms of a scheduling perspective.

If the bus & driver were both at Riverside depot and no extra time was added, it would make sense. But when drivers are across multiple sites plus the scheduling, then it would not be worth it.

Didn't notice that bit for the font text sorry!

At other depots it is generally a lot more practical to facilitate a swap on a terminating service. Like has already been mentioned, I don't think anyone would give serious thought to a scheduled swap anywhere else en route, it would be deemed too inconvenient. The only way round it would be for the bus to be ran to the start point light and the driver runs it in service to the normal relief location. However, then you're just adding dead mileage into the equation.

It's a shame, some people might see it as a bit opportunistic to try to squeeze as much money as possible out of the public purse, but as Dan has already mentioned - it could make or break some services commercially. Not to mention that passengers will generally get a better equipped bus as a result.

A good example used to be Washington on the 85 and 86, they used to run around with the old 10 plate Solo's through the day, then on a night they'd be replaced by the newer 66 plates which had NSA and WiFi.

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