(09 Apr 2024, 11:26 am)Rob44 wrote Do passengers really care what age there bus is or how padded the seats are. They are just happy the bus turns up TBH., I had the joy of brand new buses on the 44 in my younger days 251-258 nurthumbria then when arriva took over and the 44 reverted to newcastle to dinnington only we got loads of rubbish on the route, most ex London stack from what i recall. Did i stop using the bus because of it???
And dont get me started on the rubbish the was branded for bemish on the 28/28a/28b!!!
Passengers who have no choice don't but those who do, do. Considering GNE is making a loss and has lost hundreds of passengers post COVID because of a whole lot of excuses suggests people are using alternative measures.
They probably should be doing stuff to attract people on board. Unrefurbished stock cascaded from London isn't the way to do that.
Short city buses for 5 minutes you can get away with it, 40 minute+ buses like the 16/16A is a whole different kettle of fish.
Trains generally get this right as stuff like HST's and Class 158's are over 40 year old now but because of decent refurbs over the years no-one can tell otherwise. If they were in their British Railway interior still then people might say otherwise.