Arriva North West - Bootle Depot

[mathias]

RE: Arriva North West - Bootle Depot

(01/02/2014 19:41)Phil Wrote:  

(31/01/2014 15:33)mathias Wrote:  Quality Bus? NOT!

4097 (S277 JUA) Interurban DB250/ALX400 decker is on 53A-AINTREE STATION route today.
If the 53/53A route is supposed to be a QBP corridor, then why's a 15-year old tired London DLA decker being put out on it? (4097 is 15 years' old on 23/02/14)
Is Bootle seriously short of decent buses?

Personally, I'd be happy that it was a decker.

I AM HAPPY its a decker! I'm just annoyed that its 15 years old, as it doesn't meet the criteria for a Quality Bus.
Merseytravel themselves state that QBP buses must have "state-of-the-art low emissions"
http://www.merseytravel.gov.uk/qualitybusnetwork

I'm sorry, but a bus built in the late 1990s does not have low emissions nor is it state-of-the-art.

I know Bootle's been busy of late, what with Marshalls getting MOT'd and the Aber Pulsars getting Interurban repaints, but why didn't they put 4097 on a 56/58 etc? Sticking it on a QBP route is just bang-out-of-order IMO.

Getting back to the ex-Welsh Pulsars, 2661 (CX07 CVA) is freshly repainted in Interurban and is on route 52/52A today.