[Archive] Arriva North West - Birkenhead Depot

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RE: Arriva North West - Birkenhead Depot
Its sort of like the old SMART scheme but on a much larger scale, the buses have to be on specific routes and are either fully or part funded by somebody, in this case the government afaik as its under this go green scheme thing.

Arriva secured the hybrids as their pitch was that the tunnels are the most polluted areas of merseyside (apparantly, wouldnt suprise me), and to help reduce pollution in these areas they would put hybrid deckers on the cross river routes, hence they secured the funding.

I'd imagine Arriva would have to fund any optional features above the bog standard base model, such as leather seats and the WiFi - The idea is for it to be similar to the old MTL silver service- posh buses (still wont compare to the old olympians), and they won't be branded with CrossriverExpress like the enviros where - There is a competition in the depot to choose a brand for it as we speak.

Some of this has probably been mentioned before, im just summarising

Luke