Warrington's Own Buses

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RE: Warrington's Own Buses

(13/01/2020 20:11)gilesbus1 Wrote:  [...] or will they return to Blackpool Transport for more from the same batch, after all Warrington might make them look new with Private registrations!

Private registrations don't make a bus look new. They just make it obvious that the owner of the bus wants to obfuscate its age, with the clear inference that it must be older than it looks. (Admittedly, in the case of an Enviro400 City, the oldest it could possibly be is 65-reg; though I've seen cases where cherished registrations have been put on the newest examples of a type that had been in production for many years, making them appear potentially ten or more years older than they actually are.)

Of the minority of people who notice, I can't imagine many, if any, will think more favourably of the company as a result. On the other hand, they may wonder why they've been paying their fares for the last five weeks to see 100% of that money squandered on a pointless frippery that serves no purpose but to irritate bus spotters. (And that's just the transfer fee, not taking into account anything they may have paid for the mark itself, or the cost of the plates.)

Please, please, bus operators everywhere, cease this practice. Stop holding your customers in such contempt, and make your buses appear new by looking after them, rather than by deceit.