(31 Dec 2014, 10:33 am)Dan wrote Honestly, We've gone over this 101 times with other vehicles in the fleet...
Regularly seeing red spares on a route is not due to the fact that the branded allocation are unreliable. It's just a misconception due to the fact there are no branded spare vehicles. Matters will be made worse for the "Prince Bishops" services next month, when they cover a PVR of 20 with no branded spares...
I agree that the Volvo Hybrids may have been 'too slow' to stick to the timetable Go North East had for the 21 originally, but that's the reason why the timetables changed and the PVR increased by 2 vehicles (and hence now uses the two Volvo B7s - which were originally spares). To clear this up, the Angel B5s are staying where they are (for the next few years at least).
No Dan, but using the service and experiencing plenty of breakdowns, no-shows etc does show they are unreliable.
Yet again with the 21 GNE ballsed up the vehicle choice. You'd have thought they would have learnt their lesson and really thought things out, clearly not