(02 Jun 2025, 8:18 pm)I’m col87 wrote Right well from your posts you certainly don’t live or use the services in Hartlepool where as I do and I am a member of a local transport forum I know that people are definitely not happy about the age of the buses, about overcrowding, about areas without a service and about the bus network in general so please don’t pretend you know what passengers want. It’s no good the bus turning up if it’s full and no one can get due to how busy it is, so yes buses with a few extra seats as you put would be very nice. Hartlepool do actually have 3 out of town services in the 1, 59 and UCG all could probably do with bigger buses.
Every service has a journey or 2 where it don’t carry many passengers, that includes Newcastle where they have Deckers on some routes going round empty.
You’re right in that the Yutongs have less seats and I have already posted about that as they are going to have capacity issues on busier services.
All Stagecoach really have to do in Hartlepool is extend the pits, even being a small depot they is plenty of space to do that. Bigger buses means more passengers, more out of town services either commercial or contract means opening up places and getting more profit it’s not difficult to understand.
Right well from your posts you certainly don’t live or use the services in Hartlepool where as I do and I am a member of a local transport forum I know that people are definitely not happy about the age of the buses, about overcrowding, about areas without a service and about the bus network in general so please don’t pretend you know what passengers want. It’s no good the bus turning up if it’s full and no one can get due to how busy it is, so yes buses with a few extra seats as you put would be very nice. Hartlepool do actually have 3 out of town services in the 1, 59 and UCG all could probably do with bigger buses.
Every service has a journey or 2 where it don’t carry many passengers, that includes Newcastle where they have Deckers on some routes going round empty.
You’re right in that the Yutongs have less seats and I have already posted about that as they are going to have capacity issues on busier services.
All Stagecoach really have to do in Hartlepool is extend the pits, even being a small depot they is plenty of space to do that. Bigger buses means more passengers, more out of town services either commercial or contract means opening up places and getting more profit it’s not difficult to understand.
And yet we have services in Newcastle that are single deckers that should be double deckers particularly 62/63 , 38 some journeys and you have 3 double deckers going around on the 18 carrying fresh air (yes it’s a contract ) but even so …