(08 Apr 2024, 6:18 pm)Blockybus wrote I'm sure customers will see these as an upgrade. As the B5LHs became so unreliable over the last year or two and with those taken off, the service has been getting whatever has been spare which most of the time has been older vehicles, without the fancy adons such as Wi-Fi or USBs or even NSA. So I'm sure customers will be delighted to have these "better" vehicles that will turn up and have the extra features back onboard
Personally I'd rather have a 18 year old B9TL over a 13 year old Enviro 400.
Enviro 400's are great city buses but anything longer they're grim. Rattles, poor suspension as already mentioned and generally an unpleasant travelling experience. Not to mention these are in London spec bar the seats reupholstered and we don't even know if they're replaced as the GoAhead London seats are also superior to Esteban Civic's.
The DB300's at Blyth are superior to the Enviro 400's in every way imaginable even known some are 5 years older than the newest Enviro 400's.
The vast majority of people couldn't give a toss about WiFi, USB or NSA's.