(08 Mar 2014, 2:44 pm)Andreos Constantopolous wrote Nobody said you could.
Looking at the bigger picture, 2-3 poor summers and the vehicles on the route start struggling due to age/mileage.
Those few passengers who are braving the elements of a typical British summer are then put off doing the trip, due to the vehicles becoming more and more unreliable and not turning up.
There has to be a point (and there will be) when ANE have to plump for new/er vehicles on the route - regardless of the weather.
You have to speculate to accumulate in some situations...
Lets not forget, whilst we all debate how poor Arriva are and give the company torrents of abuse for how poor they are in our eyes, it is only recently they have converted the X93 to double deck operation (on paper yes), which should have happened years ago, so that in itself shows signs of improvement. You cant raise a sinking ship in one day, as they say. Arriva are crawling back from a position of being one of the worst operators in the area and it takes a long time to get any confidence back.