(02 Apr 2014, 7:47 pm)robisdave15 wrote Can go along with what Davey is saying about the B9TL's. I do Newcastle regularly on the TTX and have never had any bother. Think it's helped by the quality of maintainance from the team at GNE Riverside.
Can go along with what has been said about the engineering team at Redcar? It's been the same for years with constant breakdowns, failures to meet it's PVR and so on; even an intake of New fleet (Temsas and Pulsars) didn't help. Watch this space if the new management sort it out.
Finally. Ecocities on the X93? How would that help with the overcrowding situation?
Indeed, I'd say that having 18 of them has helped too. Anyway, Ecocities would be no good, you need power. To be quite frankly honest, the only bus that could cope with the X93 would the the few Palatine 1's kicking around. Arriva's policy of buying 'eco friendly' and 'fuel efficient' double deck buses has backfired well and truly. They're good for the likes of the Quorums, 308 and to an extent, the X10 and X11. That's it! An engine that is designed for your typical 39, 40, 62 and 63 throughout Newcastle, Killingworth, Wallsend and the West End is absolutely no good for anything more than stated above despite the so called better fuel economy. I'm not anti ADL or VDL in terms of the DB300 but a bus can only cope with what it was designed for.