(23 Jan 2021, 7:56 pm)Drifter60 wrote 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.
(23 Jan 2021, 8:53 pm)Storx wrote Have to agree with this tbh, like they say Gateshead is green and Hexham is orange; yet the 56 which serves Gateshead and Sunderland is painted in Orange..? I also thought the point was to stop painting stupid colours for the sake of it yet we're starting again with 'Little Pinks' etc which means nothing to no-one.
Also if Gateshead is green then why are the green X-Lines in Consett, why is the Pink X-Lines between Durham and Sunderland yet the red X-Lines which is 'supposedly' Sunderland in Washington.
Then on top of that Blue is in North Tyneside so the 4 in Washington is painted with blue at the back. Total mess and at the end of the day no-one excluding enthusiasts will pick it up anyway so it's totally pointless.
I'd 'like' these posts, but the function seems to have been removed, so I'll have to comment instead.
Totally agree with the points raised here.
Can understand some of the rational behind the painting, but then you have the orange 56, the green 78... Then the blue 60 which doesn't go anywhere near whatever area 'blue' is.