I noticed yesterday that double deckers were being used on the North Riding 80. It felt a bit unnecessary given that there were 5 people on my outbound journey and 3 on the inbound (including myself in both cases). I understand why they need a double decker on the college services but not on a Saturday service. Any reason for this?
It's down to what vehicles are available. The North Riding group of services will need the same number of buses on a Saturday as during the week –
and the Pocklington depot is also running the Wolds Explorer 200 at weekends which uses up another single decker. Pocklington has 10 single deckers (8 E200MMCs and 2 B8RLEs), covering the 12, 18, 31X, 80, 81, 82/83, 182, 194, 200 and 747, which on a Saturday is 12 diagrams, so the 80 and 747 have double-deckers even though no route
really needs them.