Going Solo

I have been resisting the temptation to follow the crowd and use the Optare Solo to start the low-floor conversion of the smaller vehicles in the fleet. I had taken some pride in the fact that we were possibly the only local bus operator in Gloucestershire not to have one!

I lived in hope that an alternative would appear on the market but as the deadline for full conversion of the fleet to fully accessible vehicles looms ever nearer, no such practical alternative has appeared.

And so the opportunity to acquire two of these machines presented itself at a convenient moment and so now they have arrived. All thanks to the continuing effect of the Veolia collapse on the second hand bus market!

And so CN06 BXB and CN06 BXG have joined the fleet. They will be painted this week and should be on the road in a few days time!