(10 Dec 2022, 9:58 am)DeltaMan wrote Should operators use dealer stock buses with no extras?Personally, I think having Tables, USB's, Wireless Chargers is a nice and it does attract me to the bus, especially if I lived on a route where they're regular e.g X1 and I wanted to go to Newcastle, every 15 mins, 30 mins on a night I would if I had a car. And for tables if I am with 2 or more people I tend to sit on them its nice.
However if it was a EG Rider no thanks.
(09 Dec 2022, 10:30 pm)DeltaMan wrote 5503, the "Arriva" branded X66 Volvo saloon is a disgrace inside.Tbf, its the entire fleet.
Very odd stains on the seats towards the back, graffiti on the back of seats and an old blue seat bottom with the red seat back.
It looks like something a dodgy low cost operator would use, rather than an award winning company.
Plastic behind the seats cut out, seats being cut, pen marks, USB's not working, Dest Displays not working.
I remember someone saying GNE budget was low or maintence and I think they're right buses aren't being looked at untill its needs to be buy law. I was on a 17 plate Streetlite and I think 6 USb chargers out of 40 were working, its not good enough.
You report anything like this and they say "did u tell the driver" what is that going to do, I heard a driver complaining about something they put on the defect sheet two weeks ago which still hadn't been looked out, good job trying to get USBs fixed, or headrests which have been cut open.