It's a case of just being unfortunate timing of the repainting of the B9s that has screwed things up, seemed like it was a last minute decision to rebrand them after 7405 was forced into a repaint after being involved in an RTC.

Like mentioned Whitby Park & Ride has to take priority for allocations of 7609/10 plus the B9s, just fortunate both branded buses were out on Park & Ride yesterday. Other issue being spares in Whitby, there is still cost implications in keeping buses sat spare doing nothing and to make matters worse the spare could be needed on anything including the 95 that can't use anything really any bigger than a Solo or the X4 which has low bridges so a Solo is all that can be there without having to add a second bus.

Still with all this in mind, hope more is done to try and prevent stuff like this happening, even just trying to ensure the full X93s get the deckers as opposed to the X94 which spends half the day just running as far as Whitby.

Capacity issues seemingly wasn't just an issue with Arriva yesterday, East Yorkshire allocated a B7RLE Centro to the 128 which is more commonly a double decker route.