Friday Afternoon Buses in Cambridge

[@JoshJames-yf7be]

Drivers glad it’s the weekend coming up!

[@jackbitten5941]

Nice vid. Maybe some busway action would be good next? Great upload.

[@HDTransport]

Yep good idea

[@GuyArab]

Enjoyable video, but what is the meaning of the nameless all-over green livery used by (presumably) Stagecoach? I dislike their new colour schemes anyway.

[@HDTransport]

New Busway livery. Originally all Busway vehicles were to receive it and complemented a large increase of the timetable. This ended up cancelled because of Covid and was never instated, and the Scania's all ended up on local services including the repainted examples. (Note the N250UD/MMCs since returned for Route C)

[@GuyArab]

@@HDTransport Thanks for your detailed reply. In Manchester their green buses are for the electric vehicles.

[@HDTransport]

@@GuyArab Which before Stagecoach officially announced the rebrand caused a bit of speculation. With both the new Busway XLBs and Manchester Electrics in the same shade of green many people thought this was going ahead: cbwmagazine.com/is-new-stagecoach-branding-moving-a-step-closer/ Then of course end of January 2020 the actual rebrand itself was revealed.

[@GuyArab]

@@HDTransport I have a feeling that Ray Stenning’s ‘Best Impressions’ company didn’t work on the final design.

[@HDTransport]

@@GuyArab Not at all. Ray rather opposes it (though understandable when those liveries are replacing the rather nice ones created by Best Impressions)