(20 Sep 2023, 8:08 pm)MCN881L wrote Totally agreeMost of the buses which were bought over a decade ago on profitable routes still havent had an upgrade and not upgrading them in 2017-2020 has massively hurt them the most.
Vast majority of the fleet is over 10 years old, even the early streetlites have hit 10
guessing the biggest problem now is with GNE loosing money, ther'll be no chance of new buses unless somebody else pays, ie the grants
And now everything is just ex-london stock not even the interiors have been re-done like they were with the Presidents the first time.
But lets say GNE orders 150 buses they are not going to get here till 2025, which puts a lot of the older buses which were bought between 2010-2013 when the series of massive orders were done nearly 15 years old which already need replacing and all the London stock has 1 year left before its out of its life cycle and anything else after that is hybrids or electric so relying on London anymore is a distant thought now really.
London do have some Citaros which are being replaced and if I was GNE would try and get them for anything replacement, maybe 4 to get rid of the versa and keep the Connections 4, god knows how long 3941-65 have left they seem to be the one which are hanging on under the shadow of ever increasing break downs.
It really is a shambles, because lets face it GNE aren't getting any more buses I would say till 2026/7 are the earliest thats going to have the 16 plates are 12 year old and after that not much came in especially single wise, just the 17 plates and a few deckers, which seem to be getting hammered on the X21/X10.