I have been thinking about electric buses and the charge in battery which gets me thinking but it would need someone technical to create the driving boards and I hope you understand why ...
CREATE A NEW SERVICE which is SERVICE 100 Eldon Square Bus Station - Metrocentre and run the exact same stops as service 10 10A 10B to metrocentre
Why? Adds capacity to Newcastle and Metrocentre but adds reliability so if the 10 10a 10b are severely delayed they can be terminated early at the Metrocentre etc... now you could make the 100 service (that has a timetable but can often be delayed and it is merely to assist with Electric Buses as oppose to Diesel etc...
service 100 is what people are familiar with years ago along with the X66
So if we have say an 21 service or X10 that is electric after 5hrs of driving it gets back to Eldon Square it then does a 100 to the metrocentre one trip only then NIS to Riverside for the driver break and to put the bus on charge (after day 30-50mins that driver who brought that bus in takes a different electric bus that has been on charge longer and goes NIS to Metrocentre then operates a 100 to Eldon Square then goes back onto 21 or X10 with say by mid day or 2pm in the afternoon has a 80 battery on the bus which would take it into late night service.
The same could be done for Gateshead buses and they change to do a similar model on the X66
this means potentially you can have an early morning bus getting recharged with very little dead mileage and able to last till last bus etc...
Intelligence in the control room will tell you what bus to take as they have up to date info on how much percentage battery the buses have so if they say see a bus with 30% they can instruct it when you reach Eldon Square change to 100 or park up we will have a new bus for you at Eldon Square with a spare driver doing an odd 100 swapping buses etc
you have to think it is easier to rectify it with a few electric buses but when you have a whole fleet with cold weather and no diesel it will become a problem in 10years time etc ...
RE: Electric Buses/new orders