(08 Jul 2014, 8:44 pm)peter wrote I cannot say for certain but I am 99% sure Arriva wouldn't decide to buy 11 White Destination Screens for the Pulsars when the Orange Destination Screens are fully functioning, there is no reason to do it as a specific feature of Sapphire isn't White Destination Screens, plus it wouldn't bring in any new customers to the service or make any difference to an existing passengers journey and finally what would they do with the current orange ones?
Overall it would just be one big waste of money and judging by the way in which Arriva will withdraw a service as soon as it doesn't make them money, the likelyhood they will literally pour money down the drain and purchase White Destination Screens for the Pulsars that, just like unpopular bus services, wouldn't make them any money, is extremely slim.
I totally understand what you're saying but now the pulsars are going to look so odd when virtually all other Sapphire vehicles up and down the country have white front screens yet the 7 are orange. Unless of course other sapphire routes are orange too?
If refurbished E400s down South received white screens it begs the question why NEW pulsars got orange.
Isn't the sapphire brand a business in it's own so surely it has a separate budget?