(16 Oct 2024, 3:36 pm)ReDemPTiion wrote ALL BUT CONFIRMED
Slatyford are no longer getting electric buses it is too much of a hassle to get the infrastructure at Slatyford depot being an old depot. Slatyford’s 18 electric buses will now go to Stockton along with the 40 they were already getting.
Slatyford will be keeping the 09 plated 24101-24115 over the 64/65 plate 27’s as the 24’s have a Euro 6 engine and the 27’s are just scraping through the CAZ requirements. Stocktons 262’s will go to Slatyford to replace the 27’s since they’re getting the electrics that were meant for Slatyford.
Just curious but where is this confirmed? Considering the bid for the buses was for the TNE area, I'm not too sure how on earth they can just go to Stockton.
The government has funded these through a process which says where they'd go, it's not for the bus operator to decide otherwise.
These buses could've went somewhere else in Newcastle (or Sunderland, North Tyneside, South Tyneside, Gateshead, Durham or Northumberland) with another operator if Stagecoach decided they didn't want them. I hope to god that the North East mayoral team block this, especially considering who is in charge of Teesside which would be an own goal, even politically.
Edit: Someone else beat me to it.