(10 Feb 2014, 3:56 pm)CatsFast101 wrote What vehicles do people think would be a good replacement on NTL? I think Versas for East Durham (These will allow extra capacity on 202/208/265 which can get busier) however this would have to be through cascades. East Durham requires 17 buses and NTL requires 11 like for like replacements. However in order to for Versa cascades they'd need to upgrade Orbit/QuayLink and maybe SimpliCity, which does require a bit of investment. There's also South Tyne 5 which is likely to be needing Versas also.
North Tyne Links doesn't require anything bigger than a MPD, so a bit hard to decide really. At the moment, the MPD's are doing just fine on there. At peak times, the loadings on the 80 are high though, more so Wallsend to Cobalt. If the North Tyne Links network was to get Solos (through casades, possibly when the NexusBus ones get replaced?) a couple of extra peak time journeys on the 80 would probably be needed.