(6 hours ago)Storx wrote In fairness, they don't need to sort the pits out. There's still loads of vehicles they can purchase which are 10.9m or below. I wouldn't really say getting 64/65 Plate E300's which are 10/11 year old is exactly what Hartlepool wants anyway as they're the definition of a cast off.
There's no point in trying to explain this, they need the 'capacity'. All this work to allow buses with 41 seats to replace buses with 37/38 seats...