RE: Arriva North East - Latest
(27 Apr 2014, 9:30 am)Andreos Constantopolous wrote Gonna go all Davey Bowyer on people now :p - In the entire Arriva UK fleet, there must have been something more suitable than these b7 Geminis.
Regional management, must be aware of the issues competitors have had, running long distance routes, using cascaded vehicles with the same engine.
Without sounding too pessimistic, I was waiting for comments to appear on the forum on how the vehicles would perform on the hills and now one has appeared, I ain't shocked.
Additional time may have been added to the timetable and it sounds like it is needed - but at what cost?
Day trippers having less time in their chosen destination and stuck on a struggling bus, there and back by the sounds of it.
Totally agree especially with the bit about the B7's
got one of the B7's on the X21 the other day (7490 I think) which was around 10-15 minutes late, 2 or 3 weeks ago I saw 7484 on the X21 also and that was around 15 minutes late as well- Haven't seen anymore so Ashington might have figured it out. Do Arriva seriously think that buses that can't cope with a reasonably easy route can cope with the X93?
