(02 Sep 2021, 10:53 pm)Storx wrote Yeah had a feeling it would be tight like that. There does seem to be a few Streetlites unallocated atm as the ex Red Kite ones don't seem to have a route with everything in Sunderland being Merc / Versa or Solo so could be very likely.
Be interesting to see what the plans are for the rest of the ex Quaylink and M's Versa's aswell as there appears to be a fair few with no-where to go aswell. CLS for the 34 could be a good shout though to push the rest of ex Saltwell Park's to Deptford which could push out a few newer Streetlites aswell maybe.
Yeah I've been having a think about the Versa's as well 8294-8306 is quite a few Euro 4 Versa's with seemingly not a lot to do!
-8330-8338 are going on 2/2A with 8329 spare presumably
-Assuming the 25 gets deckers then 4 Euro 6 Versa's are needed for the 28/28A, presumably 8319-8322 with 8323 spare
-8324-8325 are both Euro 6 so could join 8307-8309 and 8326-8328 as Euro 6 spare vehicles at Riverside given how tight things are with the Streetlite numbers
-8310-8318 could remain at Riverside providing the 4 buses for the 67/69, 1 for the 29 and 1 for the 643 and a few spare
-That leaves 8294-8306 which honestly I can't think what they'd be needed for other than miscellaneous/scholars or upgrading a few non-CAZ Solo operated routes. There's the 34 as well but you could use some of 8310-8318 tbh. I reckon the 8344-8346 will go to Deptford for the 9/5 which given is a PVR increase won't directly displace anything (other than 3 B9's off the 26/27 circuit as the 26 moves over to join the 50 which retains a PVR of 11 displacing the 5 onto the 9 with the resulting increase)