Arriva North West - Green Lane Depot

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RE: Arriva North West - Green Lane Depot

(29/08/2014 18:37)FC Pictures Wrote:  Those 30 could easily end up at another depot,not such a difficult thing to swap a few buses around, the bendys ended up at Speke after being rejected at Green Lane and Runcorn,so 30 deckers could end up elsewhere easily if Green Lane drivers refused them

Do you have any proof they were actually rejected at either depot? Rather than just discussed as possibilities and ultimately ruled out which seems an awful lot more likely. Despite their poor availability and reliability, they were very well suited to the 699 and the very large loads the route often gets.

As for swapping them to other depots, nope. Arriva don't order new buses based on whim - the cost of deckers is hardly chicken feed. Green Lane depot will have submitted a solid business case for double deckers on potentially two of its routes (if the number is 30) and this has been accepted and the order has gone through. Things have been thought through before the order is made. Regardless, why exactly would a driver object anyway? You get paid, you drive the bus you are given. Simples!