(29 Jan 2022, 11:35 pm)busmanT wrote And which of its magic money trees are Go North East going to use to buy the new buses, and write down the loss on the value of the "unreliable" buses that they are going to sell?

And why buy Scania, they haven't bought any for many years, another vehicle type for the engineers to contend with.

If the B5TLs are indeed 'actually' unreliable (and not just off road for long periods due to parts & labour shortages) GNE do have internal resources that they could use.

However, even that would come with cost and operational issues that would need addressed and as advised, would probably never happen.

In the scheme of things now when they're cutting back services, GNE aren't going to shell out money unless absolutely essential or unless geared towards long term recovery.