(29 May 2021, 8:06 pm)transportintyneandwear wrote Has anyone else been noticing that alot of the 2011 Optare Versas have been breaking down? I use the Q1/2 regularly and I have been in/saw many broken down Versas. I am also thinking that they should upgrade the QuayLink buses as it is quite a main service and honestly these Versas aren't good enough. I think they should get some Streetlites or Citaros.

I think it just looks like there's more of a absence of Versas with two of them being instead deployed onto the Metro Shuttle Vaccination service (although now no longer required).

I do question if plans are in the works for allocation changes and/or brand refresh for the Q1/Q2 considering them two Versas were chosen for the Metro Shuttle.