(13 Jan 2015, 6:02 pm)aureolin wrote Surprised you found the Sapphire E400s like that. The seating is essentially the same as what's in GNE's Gemini 2s, apart from a different material. I find that style of seating to be the most comfortable out there, apart from the Citaro seating.
I'd take a plastic 1ft high kids chair over the Urban90 seating in the Lowlanders. It's ridiculously uncomfortable, and I really don't know what whoever put the order in was thinking.
When them Lowlanders used to be on the 75/76 at Darlington (when they used to terminate at Newton Aycliffe, Horndale) I would always head for the back seat.
If you think sitting on them Urban90s seats for about an hour is bad I once rode the X61 from Newton Aycliffe - Scarborough on 7444 once, this was a two and a half hour journey so I don't think you can imagine how much pain I was in by the time it got to Scarborough - sat at the back on the return journey.
Not all Urban90s seats are that bad, the ones in the Enviro 200s that Scarlet Band have are alright, it's just Arriva's.
I quite the e-leather seating, I had to ride the 7 to college with a journey time of an hour each morning and found the seats quite comfortable. I'm not sure which I prefer Arriva's e-leather seats or GNE's fabric seats (like on the B9TLs).