(15 Aug 2024, 9:42 pm)stagecoachbusdepot wrote Beg to differ on this, plenty of times I've heard people (families with kids, and adult couples without kids etc) over the moon to see an open topper turn up and in contrast don't think I've ever heard anyone moan about one appearing. It might be different once the new electrics arrive but the standard stuff chucked on the Es currently is hardly luxury.
These aren't commuters who have been to work etc though and are just leisure users.
Someone leaving work doesn't want nonsense like that, they want to go home after a hard day's work.
By all means run a summer service somewhere but it shouldn't be in service in frontline service. They'd arguably be better doing a shuttle from somewhere like Seaburn to Sunderland or South Shields to Ocean Park so the usual buses aren't slammed with beach goers.