Re the Doxford Clipper.

Someone on here commented on the seats per hour ratio being increased on the service between Park Lane and Doxford, just by increasing the frequency and quoted a few figures.
To increase that ratio AND then increase it even further by introducing bigger vehicles is a massive step.

I dont use that service at all, but when I do see it, vehicles aren't close to reaching capacity on an MPD with its current frequency, so will have bags of room to spare on anything bigger which is travelling even more frequent than now.

If you look at the bigger picture and realise how many other services travel along the Chester Road corridor and towards Ryhope, there is very little, if any parts of the route which are 'unique' to this service or enough to justify the bigger vehicles.

Yes there are going to be a stack of spare Solar's knocking about soon, but they would be much better used on other services. To be honest, some of the Doxford Clipper MPD's are the same age, if not younger than them, so it would probably be a step back.