(06 Jul 2021, 2:24 pm)GNE6312 wrote That's shocking. GNE should be held accountable for that. If they have enough money to pointlessly repaint & rebrand buses then they have enough to pay staff. Besides stagecoach have no brands and most their buses are bog standard yet they still get passengers. Arriva have a relatively old fleet with few liveries (only MAX, the 2 Sapphire liveries & their 3 corporate liveries) yet they get alot of passengers so they can't say branding brings passengers. Not to mention they could have saved the money to pay staff by not replacing the 15 plate buses on the red kite last year.

With the branding, if GNE painted all of their buses in corporate livery and had no brands at all, would this really have an effect on the amount of passengers using the service? I think it would hardly make any difference to the loadings at all. The average punter couldn't care less what colour the vehicle is, provided it is going where they need to go.

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