(22 May 2021, 8:37 pm)L469 YVK wrote Arriva don't have the resource to handle competition like what they did 10-15 year back.How about some investment South of the Tyne?!
Arriva until DB put some serious investment into the business are a shadow of what they were.
Where will the extra buses & drivers come from to fight GNE off? Arriva need serious investment particularly for Northumbria before they start going back into bus wars.
To put it in a nutshell, Arriva need:
- 10x new vehicles for the 308
- 14x new vehicles for the X7/X8/X9
- 13x new vehicles for the X10/X11
- 6x new vehicles for X93 (B9s ending up on X14/X20)
- 13x or 14x new vehicles for X15, X18 and either X14 or X20
The thing we could really do with is some new single deckers somewhere within the North East to see off the Omni's at Darlington & Ashington.
A order of deckers for the X15/X18 and maybe X14/X20 would be close enough to see off the B7TLs in the fleet.
Seem as everyone forgets, the last new buses for Arriva North East was the 67 plate Lites at Darlington (delivered in 2018)