(23 Jan 2021, 10:43 am)Michael wrote On the newsletter it says:
Red for Sunderland and South Tyneside alongside purple for Peterlee (as we already know) - I wonder if this means we'll be saying a red local livery for those areas?
Looks like different colours for certain area's, back to good old days, of Wear Buses etc
This concept of linking colours is never going to work in practice. Chester-Le-Street, Durham & Newcastle aren’t mentioned in that newsletter; what colour are they? Also QuayCity being treated as standalone service above all others is bizarre. I’ve heard the rationale but I’m not agreeing sorry.
Buses travel around, the Coaster is a blue bus (for North Tyneside) but it ends up at the MetroCentre; but Gateshead is Green?
The number 2 is Black Cats (Red) - but it’s just as much a Washington local service past Penshaw just as much as it is a local Sunderland bus; so why isn’t it pink?
Does the Drifter 60 become a purple bus (linking into the minibus network for Peterlee/Seaham) but it ends up at Sunderland which is ‘red’.
Creating a nice colour scheme for area sounds good, but that’s all it is, just sounds good. Doesn’t work in practice. Better off have a few core brands that sit above a ‘key services’ branded individually keeping the road stripes to tie everything in. Then other buses are corporate services or where appropriate join the ‘mini bus’ local brands.