(11 Dec 2021, 6:17 pm)Dan wrote From 30 October the timetable was revised to include around 25 minutes layover in Newcastle to improve reliability.

The Volvo B5s aren’t unsuited to the X21 at all. Realistically it’s only a very small percentage of the route where the bus is flat out. It’s the typical scenario where a few buses are off service and no spares are carried, so routine maintenance then being carried out looks and feels worse.

In a few weeks there will be StreetDecks spare and it will be less noticeable.


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I do disagree slightly about only small parts of the route being flat out.

While obviously it's not motorway, the dual carriage way between Low Fell and A1 is pretty much flat out, as is between CLS and Pity Me, then between Durham and Croxdale, then it's fast A roads between Middlestone Moor and Coundon

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