(05 Sep 2021, 4:49 pm)mb134 wrote I think it's exactly the argument to make. Daytime vs evening experience on the X30 for over 18 months has, literally, been night and day. That the journeys were at least some of the time also operated by Scanias and Versas (have they had X-Lines refurbs?), and that the Citaros don't have tables which are advertised clearly on the daytime allocation (and are virtually life expired), is a pretty clear downgrade to me.But what if we looked at Arriva land and before you think I'm going to have a dig at them, I'd actually support them of they did such practice.
Lets say Arriva wanted to introduce and evening & Sunday X20 service to Ashington only and lets say Jesmond ran it using a Streetlite interworking with another service whereas the daytime service was run using a brand new Sapphire or Arriva Express spec double decker.
If Arriva ran the service using a StreetLite as opposed to a full spec decker, that would make sense given the commercial risk and uncertainty.
GNE have experimented with the late evening X30 journeys and as they've now been established and in conjunction with changes to other interworking patterns, it will be run using XLines spec deckers 7 days per week.
Likewise with the X5, if evening & Sunday passenger numbers grew to an extent that a bigger bus was required, then they'd no doubt try forming a StreetLite or decker operation in conjunction with other changes.