(14 Aug 2022, 8:10 am)Lollist wrote Lmao I get the 35 to school daily it's absolutely packed poor alx300s struggle literally no seats people have to stand at the doors and the moody drivers constantly saying "move back" when you can't move back because it's too full it's ridiculous

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I've seen them on 58,59 and 35 and 14/39/13 before there isn't really an allocation for them

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Aren't stockton getting 09 plate e300s in trade for the oj's

whats the ojs?

this is pure fantasy on my part but if i could i would try and acquire around 25 double decks, lets just say 2013/14 examples, certainly nothing older you could easily use to increase capacity across the north east and not replace any of the older decker's.

before introducing anything i would try and swap maybe 5 of the 16 plate MMCs at walkergate for 08 examples at slatyford, the 63 is a very long hard route and 62 is even worse now alternating buses go down to throckley 

for example i would use the first 5 buses to send the 5 2007 E400s to Stockton, i would only replace 3 of the single decker's instead of all 5 so that you have 2 spares

i would send 10 of the 2008 batch E400s to sunderland, removing 4 each of E300 and E200 again leaving 2 spare vehicles

and the final ten i would use to send to slatyford copying the sunderland routine building up capacity on routes in newcastle, in the mornings i see even traditionally quieter routes like the X47/71 uncomfortably full.

potentially thats around 10 ALX 300 you could get rid of or use for spares and around 10 E200s you could get rid off