(08 Aug 2021, 8:01 pm)RobinHood wrote EV Solutions are being looked at on four corridors into Newcastle. Majority by Zebra (not the operators) and backed by TNE as part of their bus strategy.West Road & Great North Road? Is there an existing publication with that in?
This includes the Coast Road, West Road, Great North Road and Durham Road.
So yeah, technically, Stagecoach are looking into EV for West Road and Arriva are looking into EV for Great North Road.
As mentioned in other threads - there are no such things as 'goldmine' routes anymore. at 65% passenger levels, everything is still heavily loss making. Even the government is only predicting 80% return by next April (hence GNE committing to changing things now, knowing fine well that some of these more marginal networks will never, ever be commercially viable anymore.
No doubt if Jesmond got EV's for the 43/44/45 they'd end up spending half their time on the 306 given Arriva's track record for allocations!