(09 Aug 2021, 10:45 am)Keeiajs wrote It does say on the new X6 timetable they do advertise the Drifter 60 service as the Sunderland District Drifter 60. But tbh I just want to keep the normal liverys, the news ones have been boring and not very creative. Peterlee Purples, Berries, Blue. I like Graphite & Blonde & Silver if I am honest. But why not just go back to the Doxford Clipper or some better older names. Like for Peterlee just call them the City Links, Peterlee Connect, or just something better.
Berries - InterCity Links | SimplCity
Blue -
Cherry - Just go back to the LASER.
Voilet -
These names are just bad, and the paintwork just has massive gaps with nothing but either the Pink of the berries. On the Cherry & Voilet (which again is a bad name). I think GNE have given up on really creative liverys. I mean they did the Connections 4, Little Pinks I liked, City Rider, Loop, 58 they were good. But these sunderland ones not only bar really Graphite do they have a bad name, the liveries are boring. And where it says the locations across the top it doesn't even have that number route.
Can you remember how awful the Laser branding was? Especially the second incarnation...
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Go North East / 5304 by Buses&Beyond, on Flickr
SimpliCity was ok, but operators need to be looking forwards - not backwards. We cannot keep harping back to the past, when evidently it didn't work, as passenger numbers declined year on year until 2019.