Arriva North West - Runcorn Depot

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RE: Arriva North West - Runcorn Depot

(29/10/2016 06:19)RedPanda Wrote:  Plus if the spare sapphire just started a route and word comes in of a normal bus breaking down, what do you do? Finish the route and see where they're at would be what I'd do. If it still needs replacing or if it could be replaced by something more appropriate, then swap it. But consider how much money would be wasted failing to operate other routes while waiting for the inappropriate bus to come back to the depot or bus station.

As everybody always says it's better to get a bus than no bus at all.

If the spare is on the likes of the 79C or the X30 then it is going to call back into the depot at some point anyway, so it could be swapped out then with complete ease. The X1 may have to put up with a normal bus for an hour or two but that's life. You can't have 100% uptime all the time