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Arriva Northumbria - Future of Local Services

Arriva Northumbria - Future of Local Services

RE: Arriva Northumbria - Future of Local Services
(17 Nov 2022, 8:57 pm)L469 YVK wrote The whole logistics though. So........

- Dead mileage

- Euro 6 - Longer term vehicle maintenance, support costs and replacements

- Recruitment costs to plug driver gap

- More varied fleet to support

- Could potentially lose evening & Sunday work on mentioned routes

Not forgetting the opportunity to get rid of all single deck and minibus types with just StreetLites left to cover the 1/2/57/57A and the cost of running a StreetLite over a Solo won't be much more and cheaper than a Pulsar.

Then down the line if Blyth got 17x new vehicles for the X7/X9/X10/X11, that would see off all the 57 reg E400s and a good chunk of the 59 reg Geminis.

@mb134 has pretty much said what I'd say so I won't parrot it but the 51, 53 and 57A don't go out to tender they usually get a 'that word that's gone' deal before going out to tender. The 52 isn't subsidised at all bar the extension which Nexus paid Arriva to run North of Killingworth but that was by choice as far as I'm aware.

On the Streetlite's personally I'd just purchase some form of midibus the same length as the 8xxx series with GNE for the 1 and 2 in 2024 or whenever the Pulsar's are up for replacement, they do a job for now. Any Streetlite's should go down to Durham with the rest of their sisters if there ever is a replacement up here, they're a bit of an odd bod.

On the dead runs they're pretty short really. Stockton and Darlington have some very long dead runs, potentially up there with the highest in the country on the X1 (Stanhope back to the depot) and 5 (Stockton to Easington in the morning and evening (East Cleveland)) both over 20 mile because of the Bishop Auckland and Loftus closures respectively.

Arriva Northumbria - Future of Local Services
RE: Arriva Northumbria - Future of Local Services
RE: Arriva Northumbria - Future of Local Services
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RE: Arriva Northumbria - Future of Local Services
RE: Arriva Northumbria - Future of Local Services
RE: Arriva Northumbria - Future of Local Services
RE: Arriva Northumbria - Future of Local Services
RE: Arriva Northumbria - Future of Local Services
RE: Arriva Northumbria - Future of Local Services
RE: Arriva Northumbria - Future of Local Services
RE: Arriva Northumbria - Future of Local Services
RE: Arriva Northumbria - Future of Local Services
RE: Arriva Northumbria - Future of Local Services
RE: Arriva Northumbria - Future of Local Services