(29 Mar 2021, 9:40 am)streetdeckfan wrote I honestly don't understand all the hate the Streetlites get.
As a passenger, the only real issue with them is the emergency door rattling (which I'm fairly positive is an easy fix since just leaning against it solves the problem) and the engine being a bit rough on idle.
The ride is fairly smooth, it's only over big imperfections on the road that you really feel anything.

I think I've only ever been on a few Streetlites that have any rattles (apart from the aforementioned door).

I've not been on a GNE Streetlite for a good while now, but the route I used to use to work if I wasn't fancying walking had a mainly Streetlite allocation. The gearboxes are beyond awful, the build quality is so poor on some examples here that you can see the side panels almost warping over some roads, and the emergency exit door on these ones are even worse than what I remember it being like on GNEs examples.

There were times that I'd got on a Streetlite, only 4 or so years old at the time, which got swapped over at the driver changeover stop for a 11-12 year old B7RLE and the ride quality/build quality/performance was night and day.