(16 Mar 2023, 8:13 am)Storx wrote Yeah it is because of the Solo's. There's 3 off the road lately (again) so they need 2 other buses on. I live on the route, there's daily full size buses on pretty much.
Arriva Northumbria badly need 11 new mini(midi)buses.
3x 55, 4x 57/57A, 2x 553, 2 spares and get shot of the whole lot of Solo's plus up the 55 back upto what it was since it was supposed to be temporary especially since Walkergate has ran out of buses the 44 has a Solo on today and there's a missing board on the 55 altogether (Streetlite appears to have broke down).
Think they should never have sent those MMCs to Darlington and told that complaining MP to focus on their job and arriva focus on running a bus service rather than Bowing down to them and getting shot of perfectly adequate new buses from Northumbria
Today's the 57s are made up of 2 solos and 2 pulsars. Yesterday was 2 solos an enviro and a pulsar on, the enviro, 7532 for those wondering, replaced the notoriously unreliable 2853 which expired just shy of 20 minutes into the first 57 of the day at hartford bridge.