(23 Aug 2026, 1:14 am)Arriva7446 wrote Yeah the fleet on the 37/38 is getting older year by year, not just because the buses are aging, but newer buses are being replaced with older ones. Walkergate lost the 11 plate Hybrids, 65 plate Enviro 300s and 16 plate Enviro 400's, and now loads of 58 plates on there. Don't think Stagecoach would get electric buses for those routes though, maybe they would at Slatyford to replace the 16 plates there and those would come across to Walkergate
I don't know whether it's Stagecoach refusing funding but imo the Walkergate routes should be top priority.
The fact that West Road, objectively the busiest corridor in the North East doesn't have a single electric bus while it feels like every bus on the Great North Road is, is just ridiculous imo.
The 37/38/39/40/62/63 are the sort of routes which are prime for them, high frequent routes which are fully in urban areas which trundle along at 5 mph most the day.