The only issue with comfort for me is the gearboxes can sometimes make the bus jerk, I don't think the gearboxes are suited to such a high powered engine perhaps? The seating on them is great, the suspension is great and the ambience is also great! They are also nice and warm in cold weather.
I agree. I use an Arriva interface urban route to/from work and its operated by a mixture of Streetlites and AFL200s.
The issue isn't the brakes but rather the retarder, Optare Solo SRs with the same Cummins/Voith set up have the same issue but even worse. I do agree though, they do have their faults but they're not as bad as people make out, they're no worse than a comparable E200 and they're far better than a Dreadful Dart. Although the E200MMCs are nicer as a passenger they're not without their faults either, the longer examples are on a wheelbase that's far too long with a dreadful turning circle and sit too low to the ground so are prone rear end and side damage. Aberdeen have had a lot of issues with theirs in the past year or so because of this and have banned them from the route they're branded for...
Perhaps they don't see the point as Mr Burnham will look to have them painted yellow as from 2023?
37471 was seen in Sheffield recently!
37431/454/467/556 Loaned for 3mo initially, currently in use on Uni of York grad shuttles for the rest of this week
Why is it still tracking at Oldham on bustimes.org?
Must be an error. The garage don't always update the tracking systems straight away.
I've seen photos of 37431 and 37556 still with Greater Manchester fleetnames in York
Ticket machines.
Oh so the ticket machines work as an Instant Messenger for the driver to contact control?
Correct, and before someone asks this cannot be used while the vehicle is in motion!
It's built into modern machines now. I know Vix (the ones Stagecoach use), have it but it's very basic and radio is preferred
Correct. Don't know when/if they'll be revinyl'd
Certainly do have it, but for getting a message out to everyone (incl. non-driving people), ticketer messages are much more efficient as everyone sees them as soon as they log in or as they are sent. It's an option to print out messages that you receive
I wish Oldham would get newer stock, like the B9 Mark 2 wright bodies. They only have 2 for Vantage spares.
There was a recent update here:
www.railforums.co.uk
I don't know their system or how widespread it is. I just ask though, are you sure that it isn't already group wide and that it's just depots not reporting cancellations?
The Twitter team have been replying to people here in Glasgow saying it's on its way for about a year now and it's still not here. If it's depots not reporting them that's another issue that needs to be addressed in itself
This is the more likely reason. However it does not distract from the fact how underwhelming the award winning First app is - I don't really care how many seats free my bus has. I want to know where it is, how late it is and if it's going to get me to my destination - only the former can the First app show, when it doesn't crash that is. I'd expect the "bus on a map" feature to show all of this information (i.e. location, service number, destination, delay).
Hopefully everyone who has it starts to use it. It's basic customer service to be honest.
