(31 May 2025, 5:03 pm)benji123 wrote Stagecoach is a business and will certainly have long term plans. Hartlepool doesn't need single deck buses, midi buses are just fine. They run local town routes, which are going to get busy at peak times but that's part of the course. Why rebuild a depot to replace 10-15 year old buses with slightly bigger (4 extra seats if that) 10-15 year old buses?
Hartlepool won't get investment until it's needed, which will likely be electric vehicles when the 63/15 E200 darts need replacing.
As mentioned, the 36 serves a fair bit of Hartlepool and will soon run brand new fully electric buses with air con and high back leather seating - it's not like the town is getting nothing.
Actually Hartlepool does need better full sizes along with some smaller buses. The 1 6/7 can all get full at various times of the day, i know this because I regularly see it happening and use them services. Some smaller could be handy for some but not all areas of the town. You could actually use the same excuse to downgrade Stockton considering it’s mostly town services why do they need full size buses ?
Why rebuild the depot you ask because if you did and made the pits your making it better for the future, full size buses could actually be used not just on town services but a few more out of town services as well. The bus users in Hartlepool are sick of getting knackered midi buses and want to see better services.
(31 May 2025, 5:03 pm)benji123 wrote Stagecoach is a business and will certainly have long term plans. Hartlepool doesn't need single deck buses, midi buses are just fine. They run local town routes, which are going to get busy at peak times but that's part of the course. Why rebuild a depot to replace 10-15 year old buses with slightly bigger (4 extra seats if that) 10-15 year old buses?
Hartlepool won't get investment until it's needed, which will likely be electric vehicles when the 63/15 E200 darts need replacing.
As mentioned, the 36 serves a fair bit of Hartlepool and will soon run brand new fully electric buses with air con and high back leather seating - it's not like the town is getting nothing.
Actually Hartlepool does need better full sizes along with some smaller buses. The 1 6/7 can all get full at various times of the day, i know this because I regularly see it happening and use them services. Some smaller could be handy for some but not all areas of the town. You could actually use the same excuse to downgrade Stockton considering it’s mostly town services why do they need full size buses ?
Why rebuild the depot you ask because if you did and made the pits your making it better for the future, full size buses could actually be used not just on town services but a few more out of town services as well. The bus users in Hartlepool are sick of getting knackered midi buses and want to see better services.
(31 May 2025, 7:53 pm)ReDemPTiion wrote Stocktons buses can’t go to Slatyford we literally had to give them back the 271**’s and 272**’s due to them being Euro 5 and swapped them with the 262**’s.
Was going by what a driver said I would actually prefer if they did come to Hartlepool myself.