Stagecoach North East

[kuyoyo]

RE: Stagecoach North East

(01/10/2012 21:59)cumbria0902150 Wrote:  I don't have any information on the rumours, but a personal opinion is that some sort of Trident for conversion to open top would be likely. Cannot pass comment on Stockton's Olympian's as I don't know if they're under contract for a minimum seated capacity beyond that of a Trident, or if commercially operated, passenger figures not exceeding the capacity of a 10.5m Trident. Then of course there's cost, do the school routes pull the money in to pay for the Trident's.

The Macmillan routes are contract services, renewed 3 years ago (when they were renumbered from 341-348 to 301-308 though not in the same order). Not sure if there's a minimum seat capacity given the shorter N-LTN Olympians have been used on there in recent years. And considering they seat 75 (compared to the 87 of the R-OVN ones), depending on what the Tridents can seat, I can't really see it as a problem. Plus, having low floor deckers would enable us to use them in day-to-day service without the moans of certain passengers about the steps.