(22 Jun 2014, 3:44 pm)Richard Smiles wrote Its a fairly long drawn out Process for Stagecoach UK Bus, as first The Individual Divisions have to put together Bids for vehicles & specify the Services they will be used on. Once the bidding process is completed, it takes a while for them to be processed & once the requirements are totalled, a second Bidding Process goes out to The Manufacturers to build the vehicles & how many of each type etc.
Though I doubt, they will land on Teesside, It would be nice to see Stagecoach North East get a supply of the New Enviro 400 MMC. Judging by previous posts, it sounds like the X34 would be a good candidate for an upgrade.
Would personally like to see service 4 and 12 in Sunderland upgraded to gas buses (PVR 15, so 17 buses ordered), and also the Economic & X34 services upgraded to E400MMC (PVR 19, so 22 ordered).
This would total 39 vehicles, and hopefully there would be room for another upgrade somewhere too - perhaps in Newcastle.