(13 Jan 2014, 6:09 pm)aureolin wrote Bit gutted I missed it! Has it remained with Arriva elsewhere? Or back to Optare. Seems a bit pointless only having it for such a short time, when it could have been trialled over a number of routes.

If I am correct, the bus arrived around the date of Wednesday 4th December 2013.
I went out for it on Saturday 14th, and it wasn't out - guessing it was either off while being prepped to return or it had already left.

It's not as if Arriva can actually get a good idea for how the bus performed in just a few days either... I'm sure there were some faults with the Streetlite Max demonstrator vehicle GNE had which developed after a few months in service. How do Arriva know the Versa won't have troubles after a few months?

Now with "Courtney Buses" (again for a two week trial period) as seen here.


EDIT: Ooops, Scott beat me to it!