(24 Jan 2021, 5:14 pm)Dan wrote I can't help but feel this is a total over-reaction? I'm shocked: I really don't understand why everything has to be taken so literally.
South Tyneside and Sunderland are deemed to be red, what colour is on the back of the Crusader? Red! Repaints have been aligned to this strategy for the past two years (this isn't a new thing!)
Clearly a route contained entirely within one area will be that colour predominantly, but this doesn't work for every service as there are many which cross between several different coloured zones.
At least you are trying to coordinate serives/repaints etc... Instead of doing them randomly. I would rather Xlines, Swoop and Roadstripes then different branding altogether for each route. It provides a level of consistency/uniformity of the fleet