(21 Feb 2025, 11:41 pm)Storx wrote See if you wanted to tidy stuff up, I'd be looking at outside the region. Like Brighton is due another 16 electric vehicles soon at their Conway depot which is replacing 17/67 Plate Streetdeck's.

Personally from a group level, I'd be looking at sending them somewhere like the North East which in return will send the 7 B5TL's to somewhere which has B5's to get shot of a microfleet here and try and tidy stuff up.

I'd also be doing the same thing locally there's currently depots with like 3 random vehicles where everything else is the same.

Like ideally I'd be looking for

Consett: E400/E400MMC
Deptford: B9TL
Percy Main: B9TL
Washington: Streetdeck
Riverside: Streetdeck/B9TL/E400MMC

It's not hard to achieve really, or close to it anyway, with some tinkering around and would massively help depots out like Blyth who can keep there ancient DB300's on the road as they're like bread and butter to them. It's probably one reason why Percy Main do better as they only have limited vehicle types to deal with right now Streetlite's and B9TL's rather than the stupid numbers elsewhere - especially Riverside and Consett.

I don't disagree, but would StreetLites & StreetDecks not work together at Percy Main depot for frontline work (with B9TLs still existing for misc workings)?

I can't see how Percy Main could get the infrastructure for a ZEBRA bid. And I doubt GNE would want the hassle of potentially closing down Percy Main depot and re-locating to Riverside.