The Poolie Bunker

Stagecoach is bringing new electric buses to Tees Valley…..there are two Stagecoach depots in Tees Valley …Hartlepool and Stockton, all the new buses are going to Stockton …second hand cast offs for Hartlepool again.
No new buses here since 2008.

Very true Snowy.
A story i heard was that we are getting the Sunderland cast offs..........now that is an insult!

Some came from Rotherham last year…. 19years old but a coat of paint and the punters don’t have a clue.

At least they are Championship and League 1 clubs. Can you imagine how it would feel if they were from..............................................Darlington

Open top single deckers….hmmmm ….I can see a drawback.

Before Loan Star comes on I'll just mention that they've won more than we have

Got to give em credit for that.

Mind you, it isn't a thread about Raj so he might miss it.

Dame Tannii lives in Stockton so of course they will be priority. Otherwise it would all over the BBC about how they are being discriminated against

As usual for Hartlepool, we get the scraps from the table.

could be something that we never think of why this is happening. knowing something about the industry there are two things why this happens. firstly the routes might be easier for older vehicles or the mechanics working at the hartlepool depot are far superior than at other places therefore more able to keep an aging fleet on the road.

No different from the trains, everyone’s cast offs.

that could also be the same reason as the old buses. no nasty master plan against the region itself. when buses and railway stock are first purchased they have a shelf life from day 1 and get downgraded in use for routes they are more capable of being used effective on. back in the days of the 50,s and early 60,s the local |United fleet was much older than the one in scarborough for a start but many vehicles then were used on works specials that other places did not have. even the corporation old buses were seen with more with Zinc Works on their blinds than Port Clarence but still did a job.

68 electric busses according to Big Ben for Stockton due Feb 2025.
Does the 36 run out of Stockton?

Yes, it’s where the new buses go.
There’s only the Stockton depot covering Teeside…and Hartlepool of course for Hartlepool……where the discarded buses get a last chance.

Every time I see an electric vehicle I’m reminded of milk floats going over a hole in the road and the milk bottles rattling in their crates….

at least the empties helped you to hear them. trollybuses were known as whispering death due to how quiet they were. god help the modern day pedestrian and there antics once these leccy vehicles do become a norm.

At least the old (and highly reliable) Teeside trolleybuses ran under visible wires so you were at least aware that they were about - unlike the electric vehicles of today. Why can’t manufacturers of EV’s be compelled to fit audible noise devices into these silent killers? My wife was almost mown down in the cemetery recently by an electric hearse FFS.

there is nobody more careful than me crossing roads but i have had a close shave myself. its back to previous comments about health and safety thats looked at in different ways depending on the present agenda. they,ll even alter the highway code regarding pedestrians if these things become the norm and you,ll be done for jaywalking if you upset one of the self satisfid looking ones.

They could have a sound system fitted with speakers up front…the sound of rattling milk bottles would be ideal….or ‘Get out of the way plebs’….because when net zero kicks in you’ll have the choice of the bus or shank’s pony…….cars will be beyond reach of the ordinary people…which is what the greens wanted all along…aided by politicians detached from realty.

How about fitting a wooden lolly stick against the back wheel spokes like we did as kids on your bikes.

correct. they will never ban this outright but we,ll be priced out of using them by increased tax, insurance and fuel. even horses will be banned because they might fart.

If we have to use horses they’ll be selling GTX Hay to go faster and all weather horse shoes for the tight corners……we ‘re going backwards.