Arriva Tamworth

[Bob]

Cannocks pull away from bus stops at a snails pace so I'd imagine they'd have to do something to em!

[Busman Jamie]

the best modification for streetlites is scrap them

[Kevin]

I'm just trying to imagine a Streetlite on the Expressway...
It's a horrible thought

[Bob]

I'd imagine that they'd be pretty loud

[Steveminor]

Travel news...... The aston expressway is currently closed in both directions due to arriva needing to run their new extra buses on the 110

[Bob]

Lol was that a swipe at sarcasm :-p

[Steveminor]

Me sarcastic surely not.

[Busman Jamie]

if the streetlites are so fantastic, why do cannock always run a 63 plate pulsar on 1/2

[arrifirststage]

the best modification for streetlites is scrap them

Yet another enthusiast expert......how is it that you are more capable than the chief engineers of Arriva and Firstgroup...what exactly are your qualifications for making such an absurd assertion?

[Busman Jamie]

how is my comment a mechanical 1? it was simply a question?

[Steveminor]

Take an optare solo that isn't the best bus ever built, then copy it "badly & cheaply" then have no real background maintenance for them (unless there is more than 6 at a time you can't get Wright to sort them ) then there you have it the Wright streetlight.
If they're really that good why did silverline regret buying them & revert back to adl products.

[PM]

Take an optare solo that isn't the best bus ever built, then copy it "badly & cheaply" then have no real background maintenance for them (unless there is more than 6 at a time you can't get Wright to sort them ) then there you have it the Wright streetlight.
If they're really that good why did silverline regret buying them & revert back to adl products.

I think there were teething troubles with initial ones but now they're absolutel fine. They ride well, don't rattle or wallow and are comfortable to travel on, Arriva Sapphire and First Olympia spec ones in particular where interiors are ligher than on stock built examples. The WF ones aren't as attractive as an Optare Solo SR though...

[Tony]

Take an optare solo that isn't the best bus ever built, then copy it "badly & cheaply" then have no real background maintenance for them (unless there is more than 6 at a time you can't get Wright to sort them ) then there you have it the Wright streetlight.
If they're really that good why did silverline regret buying them & revert back to adl products.

Strange the senior engineers at Arriva, First, Stagecoach, Go-Ahead, National Express all have a different view. These people look at whole life costs, not just purchase price, so if they thought they wouldn't last, were built badly, or all the other accusations made, Wrights wouldn't have a full order book

[Bob]

They do rattle.  3306 rattles terribly.  They also aren't smooth, not at all. And the scream they make when even  a slightly higher bit of power is required... Theyre pretty unpleasant  buses, a Citaro or B7rle or dare I say it at a push a Pulsar is much nicer to travel on.

[Tony]

They do rattle.  3306 rattles terribly.  They also aren't smooth, not at all. And the scream they make when even  a slightly higher bit of power is required... Theyre pretty unpleasant  buses, a Citaro or B7rle or dare I say it at a push a Pulsar is much nicer to travel on.

Do you know what Bob, don't know if you have travelled on an Arriva Citaro, but with those horrible seats they have fitted they are not nice for a long ride at all, give me one of the StreetLites any time for anything more than 15 minutes