(16 Mar 2021, 6:02 pm)mb134 wrote Agreed. First up here are just as backward, the new 70 plates don't even have WiFi, let alone NSAs or USBs, and their app is beyond unreliable. The general condition of both First and Stagecoach fleets up here, in terms of technology, is very much mid-2000s standard - it makes ANEs 'MAX' brand look like the epitome of a luxury service.

I'd still take either of them over something from GCT mind, possibly quite snobby of me but I think that while we do have some very good independents in the NE, we also have some absolute cowboys.

Like I said, if you're spending £250k on a new decker, would it really be too difficult to ask for some mod cons?
As I've also said in the past, there really is nothing to a next stop announcement system, I'd be interested to know how much the likes of Hanover charge for their system.