(02 Jun 2022, 12:07 am)toward6931 wrote they do but so does Newcastle for CAZ, kill two birds with one stone if say 15 new 200MMCs were bought for slatyford which could then cascade through Sunderland as they have Newcastle bound services, then down to hartlepool. as it is a lower input area than NCL and SDLDWith the current financial predicament that the bus industry is in, I can't see any new buses being ordered unless they are bought with assistance from government funding. I can see the north east getting cast offs from Oxford, Cambridge, Coventry, Sheffield, Manchester and so on where they are getting new buses funded through government.
It will be interesting to see if Stagecoach's new owners DWS speed up investment as they have suggested they will do.