(Yesterday, 9:45 am)Kuyoyo wrote Maybe what a friend of mine said yesterday in a group chat

One depot is always going to lose out - see Stockton in Durham County, 10 new Evoras when the depot last had new buses in 2014 and the vast majority of the fleet is over 15 years old (and those Evoras are replacing the ex-Merseyside Pulsars from what I undertsand - compared to Redcar who are losing the native ones).

Aye not surprised either really, obviously I respect how Arriva want to run but to me from a passenger point of view. Going down the old (un)managed decline approach when there's a railway line in town also causing issues just seems a quick fire route to make things worse. I don't expect much but I always thought they'd attempt to put some form of fight out against the train and not necessarily brand new buses either but they've done nothing

It's almost like they've just gave up, and the fleet presentation just backs it up. The sort of thing being like sending the 16/17 Plate E400MMC's for a decent refurb and sending them here. They're old but they're a massive improvement to what's here now. I'm sure some of us would've moaned on here but at the end day we're irrelevant it's what the public sees and they'll see something more modern. The new buses going elsewhere where there's more money and everyone wins. 

Must say I do feel for Stockton aswell, obviously not my area, but the fleet is poor there too.

(Yesterday, 9:45 am)Nerd4321 wrote I dont get your "Blyth has this PVR of single deckers". Half the time the X routes dont even warrant at double decker

Happy to be corrected, it's just what the PVR actually is rather than opinion. There might be a few boards on the 43/44/45 which are singles but obviously they're due to be replaced.

Unless it's changed there used to be big problems that if you had a single which missed the morning peak, then it hit the afternoon peak instead and vice versa.