(10 Nov 2014, 5:25 pm)Tom wrote I didn't know the difference in price, could they get funding from the GBF?
And the Streetlite Max buses are bigger, and will cope better on the Lime?
I don't think another round of the Green Bus Fund has yet been announced - whether this is linked to government funding cuts or something else, I don't know?
Go North East's "Drifter" branded Wright Streetlite Max vehicles seat 45 and allow 21 standees. Arriva's eco-friendly liveried Wright Streetlite Micro-Hybrid vehicles seat 44 and allow 23 standees. There is a single seat near to the front of Arriva's Streetlites on the offside. This accounts for the slight differences in capacity, but Go North East's capacity specification could remain the same as the current full-length Streetlites in the fleet.
What evidence is there to suggest that the Streetlite Max copes better than the Streetlite Micro-Hybrid? I'm not mechanically minded to know enough about this, but if the difference is all linked to the braking, then I can't imagine the Micro-Hybrid version to cope less well than the normal Max version...