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The Leicester clean air zone was abandoned at last minute and these were only transferred in at the beginning of the year, so well after the idea had been scrapped.

It isn't. It took approximately 2 hours from entering service before breaking down at its last Arriva garage.

Should they also provide shower gel and deodorant so their employees don't stink or do you accept some degree of personal responsibility?

Plenty of people manage to look scruffy in shirt and tie and plenty of others look professional in polo and shorts. Overly tight or baggy clothing, and that which has not been cared for correctly (faded, creased, torn, stained etc) looks awful regardless of what the item of clothing is (although...

I would add the following two points but otherwise that's a good list; - Recognisable - Difficult to Copy / Fake

I think their is an element that the original solos are more reliable than the Versas and Solo SRs but that the issues with the Volvos and Enviros is largely due to ongoing availability issues preventing minor issues being addressed until they are deemed an immediate safety risk or prevent the...

To be honest whilst they have a bit of breathing room thanks to the university holidays I think it would be disastrous for service provision if Kinch went into the next academic year without any new vehicles having entered service. Other than the classic and slimline Solos (1-6 and 478/479)...

The benefit of removing East Midlands Parkway is that it reduces the demand on the line from those who live closer to the ECML and therefore need to be encouraged to use that line whilst the MML is severely short of capacity. The time penalty of stopping at the Ivanhoe stations is simply too...

I personally think this reduces them service to London St Pancras too far. I would go with 1 tph London St P - Sheffield (London St P, Leicester, Derby, Sheffield) (222/810) 1 tph London St P - Nottingham (London, Leicester, Nottingham) (222/810) 1 tph Kettering - Derby (Kettering, Market...

If there are they are stuck in 1980. Polo based uniforms are both more comfortable for the employee (as long as the absolute cheapest options are avoided but the same can be said for more traditional shirts) and more cost effective for the employer. On a day like today short sleeved polos and...

Presumably Scarborough is the site with the most infrastructure in place for the future so even if all 3 sites were to remain open it would be absolutely disastrous to use the biggest site for the nichest work.

Also that Sprint should be moving over to the summer timetable imminently freeing up buses to cover the town services over the summer.

I'm sure there are plenty of people (myself included) who would have no issue with using a railway funded taxi but would not want to pay for one themselves.

It clearly has a fault of some kind that is proving difficult to repair. Whether that's because its an intermittent fault making it impossible to find during testing or something that requires a not immediately available part.

Probably meant Hinckley, Narborough and South Wigston. No impact on Nuneaton or Leicester as the "extra" seats will come from adding stops onto the Stansted airport services so they can claim there is more seats (despite them already being taken from passengers joining at the existing calls).

Yes but until the baseline changes it is not included in the baseline and therefore should not be included in the comparison. I would totally agree that comparisons with 2019 are increasingly meaningless and the inability to include the Elizabeth Line is one (of many) reasons for this being the...

As long as they compare to 2019 "excluding Elizabeth line" will be needed. Ideally it can reach 100% before too long meaning they can use 2025 (as example) as the base year.

I think today's allocations were done by throwing darts at a pinboard of fleet numbers. There are 5 electrics on all day boards on diesel routes whilst multiple diesels are on electric routes.

So at least a couple of the current ones will be staying given there will be nothing else suitable in the Kinch fleet and it has a PVR of 16. At present a typical day sees between 15 and 17 of the 18 enviros in service (on days where 17 are in service one will be on a different route) however it...

The 2 will almost certainly be E12s as it’s the priority for a Volvo at the minute. They currently have 9 larger buses for the non skylink routes and one of 107/108 is on the 9 at least half of the time at the minute and are still regularly using solo SRs on these routes so 11 E12s and 10 E9Ls...