Arriva North West - Bootle Depot

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RE: Arriva North West - Bootle Depot
DAF 4063 was on the 60 today, keeping up its wandering ways, while the 56 was once again fully double decked, a process seemingly becoming the norm. 4064 and 4082 were joined by 4094 on what had been the commonly single decked duty. Good to see and I hope Bootle keep this up. However, the seemingly inevitable pair of Darts on the 52/52A appeared in 2224 and 7660. These sort of allocations are hard to understand when Bootle apparently have easily enough Pulsars to operate the 52, 53, 55 and 62 corridors without substitutes.

On the Pulsars, just my opinion but I don't think Bootle's are too bad actually. As Michael says, a few do ride roughly but I think they're in the minority. Bootle's are also generally still clean and tidy unlike a lot of Green Lane's. Of all the depots' Pulsars I've used, Southport probably has the best ones. St Helens are decent as well, Birkenhead a mixed bag.