Consett defintely need something, a shortage of serviceable deckers means the X30/31/32 has frequently had single desckers and solos recently and the old ex-London E400s on the 16 are awful, classic case of lipstick on a pig with the repaint and branding trying to fool people into believing they are newer than they are. The previous suggestion of all E400s seemed to make more sense than streetdecks. 

Before our friend pipes up about changing the X30/31/32 allocation and interworking to solve the problem again, from a passenger point of view at least that's not the answer, ideally it should go back to 4 an hour with at least two X30s an hour as it's the only bus to serve shield row while east stanley and chester road have plenty services already so no need for extra services going that way.