I’d really advocate an initiative to fast-track the retirement of the remaining low floor Scanias - at least the numerous units at Kingsgrove - those are in an increasingly poor state. The past summer, people have sweltered on them because of failed aircontioning. Likewise this winter, at nighttime, it’s freezing cold inside - this is the only bus type where I’ve not felt any kind of heating whatsoever. It’s like the bus actually has no conventional climate control but rather force ventilates outside air through the vents. The Mark V’s at least had windows. And besides that, the interior of these are looking increasingly ratty , tired and worn out.
Order a hoopla of more Scania Volgren Optimus (or whatever else), just for Kingsgrove, fully modernise the fleet at that depot and be done with it.
Kingsgrove is unique in that it has so many old buses running around late at night, I think that depot needs a bit more attention as to who gets the next batch of new buses
I also support the calls on this thread for replacing the 14.5 Scanias with new 14.5’s. They serve a very specific niche, that I think works, I mean you don’t compare an apple with a pear (my point being 12m bus vs 14.5m bus are for very different services) so hopefully, but one can dream