"Nothing to write home about" - you get spoiled with uprated engines on some exports such as this one! In the U.K. 200hp is 11.3-11.7m lightweight single decker territory!
@@MichaelFlatman a lot of what your feeling about many buses by private operators in the UK is simply engine & gearbox software configurations slowing everything down and making the vehicle feel very lazy.. Public service should never be in private hands!
I don't think these are too bad. As long as they are put on a town or city route (I think they are totally powerless and underperforming on rural / faster roads), I actually quite like them. Though I would agree with some of you that some can be extremely rattly, and sluggish too. My local bus company (yes I also live in the UK lol) operates a total fleet of 27 Streetlites, mostly used on town routes.
I live in Waterford, Ireland and this city received 17 of these buses brand new in December 2018. I rarely use buses being a taxi driver, and only time I ever use a bus is to collect my car whenever its in a garage. I agree with the negative comments I've read here. The company who build these buses (Wrightbus) went out of business in September 2019.
Same here in Waterford. the buses was cheap to buy , the government to give them to Bus Eireann . i Drive Tallow to Dungarvan Buses where we have 3 of them
Wrightbus only went out of business "administratively" (rather than practically). The day after administration, they were bought by Brian Souter (the owner of Stagechaoch) and are still making hundreds of rattly, poor build quality buses each year !
This bus is well know in the UK, for the wrong reasons. 'Streetshites' are known to set fire, they have little to no suspension, they have very poor acceleration and struggle to get up any form of gradient over about 5%, and lastly, they are loathed by almost all of the people who use them.
slower than a slug here in the UK, might be something to do with programming/emissions control. Transmission isn't good that's for sure, and off the line acceleration is the bad point.
I'm driving one right now and I agree with this comment, the suspension is terrible, except when you are on newly paved road, then it's fine. And the gearbox can't make up it's mind. It's hard to drive smoothly.
Agreed with all comments apart from the ones that label as positive. I drive these every day and i can tell you now that these are by far the worst buses i have ever driven!! Period!! Hate is a strong word so i wont use that but i certainly dislike these buses. I drive round small very tight residential areas and i actually find it easier in a double decker or a 12 metre tempo to drive around them in than these street lites. Just purely down to the fact that there is very little acceleration from a stand still. Its very hard to brake in a nice smooth linear fashion due to the gearbox f**k assing around continuoulsy! Also due to the gearbox assing around the accleration through the gears at low speeds feels jerky. Basically at low speeds it feels like your in a battle constantly to try and stop it from jerking back and forth. I literraly feel a sense of anxiety and tight chetedness when driving one of these. Someone in the comments above wrote that they have been known to catch fire, it really would not surprise me if they were deliberately set on fire by the drivers intentionally so that they would not have to drive these satanic flee infested misery cubes!!!
For anyone who's looking at the Streetlite as a bus and basing their entire judgement on its polished shiny paintwork, LED 'Xenon look' headlamps, and LED rear lamps, and general clinical cleanliness and space inside the vehicle, I can be honest about this bus because I have driven lots of the 11 metre 'Overhang' fronted Streetlites with the 3.9 Cummins ISBe engine. So here I go with my own experiences... It is rubbish for both driver and passenger. The vehicles air suspension is rock-rigid on all four wheels. Every single wheel sucks right into every pot hole and sunken drain cover you can see. Driver and passenger can feel all of this bumping and bashing around. The power steering is twice the weight of every other bus power steering system. To turn, it feels heavy, like the power steering doesn't work. To brake using only the retarder, you have to hold the brake pedal until you hear and feel an electronic "whizzz or wheee" which varies massively. Some streetlite retarders snatch violently, others are smooth, some are weak. If the Streetlite is a 'Micro hybrid' model (Electric/Diesel engine) then the brake pedal must be tapped first, before holding it again for the endurance brake retarder. So to stop the micro hybrid model you must press the brake pedal TWICE (which is dangerous in an emergency stop) to slow the vehicle to stop. If you don't press the brake pedal twice, the electric forward propulsion motor will carry on forcing the bus forwards when you are trying to brake. Thus causing a direct conflict between you braking and the bus accelerating. How dangerous is that? Not to mention other dangerous factors like a self-cancelling interior ceiling light which stays on for 30 minutes before blacking the entire bus out. Dipped LED Headlamps which dazzle other cars and motorcycles infront. LED Headlights which reflect bright light from torrential rainfall making it harder to see darker details on a raining night. And of course, cheap red 'Thump the button' emergency glass escapes. If its rattling 4cyl 3.9L engine and the constant "Whirrrrrr" of the Voith gearbox doesn't wind you up hearing it all day. The acceleration of the underpowered 3.9 engine combined with the voith gearbox will drive you potty. Not only is it noisy but the voith transmission can't cope with the lack of power delivered by the 3.9 engine. It keeps dropping down a gear to compensate for the lack of power. So all you get is an engine note which keeps singing high then low between a high gear and a low gear totally confused as to what gear it needs to drive the entire bus. Oh, the half-power power steering isn't the only thing you should worry about. Don't forget the 'Low friction/Easy roll' tyres which feel like they are made of hard plastic. So everytime you turn to go round a corner on any dry/wet road surface this bus wants to slide and carry on in a straight line even when your wheels are turned. You can feel it 'Skating' like it's got bald tread or black ice. A few good things I can say about this bus. The drivers seat winds down low like a car drivers seat. The dashboard display and where the driver sits is a closely surrounded area like a car. That's the only positive thing I can say
That is a software limitation - ordered by purchasers. It's to save on axle wear, as an axle that spends 99% of it's time going forward, wears fast when going backwards (certainly at any speed).
If only the company I work for didn't have a mostly StreetShite fleet, I really cannot express how crap these buses really are, the 17 plate demonstrator was laid up at the depot with a defect sticker on it so that should say a lot
Why Australasia you could have had another bus from the UK which is good? Enviro 200? Enviro 400? Enviro 300? Optare? NBfL? Anything but the streetshite!
The hate on this bus is insane. But I do agree they are quite bad. I remember getting on two of these as a return trip and both of them had a strange rattling and banging sound coming from where you would suspect the rear axle to be. Im 6ft 4 roughly and to sit straight and not on an angle on one of these is impossible but then again so are most for me but this by far is worst
Because it's an entirely different chassis and body. Citaros are German-designed and made. The chassis is far superior and the build quality also far better. The Wright Streetlite is made without love in Northern Ireland, built to a (cheap) price. PS. A new Citaro2 costs around 40% more than an equivalent Wright Streetlite.
This model was proved in the jungle of the hot streets of Santiago in Chile and it runs with high performance. The critics got a positive impresion as it is very suitable for the services in the periphery of the city.
@Hotpoint2005 I actually went on First Cymru (ex-West of England) Door Forward ISB4.5/Voith 47548 SN14FFY longer distance on a wrong route working (end to end TrawsCymru T1 from Aberystwyth to Carmarthen, a 2 hour and 15 minute journey) and my friendly Mid Wales Travel subcontracted driver was at the wheel and although it wouldn't go past 50mph (a whole 12mph slower than an Enviro200) we were both saying that actually they're not as bad as people make out...
Arriva stopped offering chassis from VDL I’m sure a Pulsar 3 would have been built if Arriva stuck with VDL since all it needed was a euro 6 ISBe it’s shocking how quickly Wright went from building their best body the Renown to the worst being the Streetlite
As a driver, never hated bus so much. Ugly, awkward, nothing feels right about it. Just a big mess. Undescribable. Thank god I only have to drive them in very very rare occasions. But even that feels too much...
There's a route I use one or two Sundays per month. As a passenger, they're incredibly uncomfortable and rattle like mad. The route uses Enviro400 MMCs Monday to Saturday, and the Sunday allocation is streetlites because it interworks with another route... awful buses I really do feel sorry for those who have to drive them
That's a different chassis and bus altogether. Same engine but everything else in the Citea is completely different to the Wright Streetlite. Built by entirely different companies.
No Australia No! You do NOT want to import these awful buses to your country! Take this from an actual bus driver who had to drive these things day in, day out.
That is *PATHETIC* . TFL are soooooooo thick. First streetshites and then class 345 and 710 (got to admit, they are very good trains) are made of *cheap plastic!!* Do us a favour and show Chris Grayling the way out of the tories!!
WeControlEverything YouSeeAndHear LOL!!!! THAT WAS THE MOST FUNNIEST COMMENT I'VE EVER READ!!! yes they deserve the name streetdick. Wrightbus need to improve *MASSIVELY* in euro 7 Becuase these (as jim carrey says in liar liar), worthless steaming pile of cow dung are a pathetic excuse for a bus.
Hard to imagine the same Mercedes who make racing cars made this underpowered engine! It will struggle like Caitlyn Jenner in a beauty pageant when on the open road, though hopefully Daimler / Mercedes will add some extra tweaks to the output soon. Also, get one with kickdown function as the ones without are painfully slow
There's nothing wrong with the Merc engine; it's just that the Streetlite is the wrong application for it. That engine is great in a small midi bus. But in a 11-12m city bus, it's just out of it's depth. Like putting a 1.0, 3cyl engine in a Mondeo .... oh, hang on... 😄
Over here our drivers say there underpowerd pieces of shit that cant go over 30 mph and there too small but some of the transdev ones numberd 601 602 603 604 are aparently good and the rest are shit
I agree with everyone else that these buses are piles of crap. Have them with First Aberdeen. They just rattle over every little bump, underpowered and uncomfortable. The Gemini 2 with the Volvo B9TL or B5TL engine will always be the best bus made by Wright bus and is on par with the Enviro 400. The new Gemini 3 has come with mixed reviews especially its ‘interesting’ styling…
I forget what they put on the Volvo B10BLE chassis that First Group hoovered up in substantial number but that was my favourite body style of theirs followed by the Endurance on the B10B which West Midlands and Merseybus, among others, took in number too.....
NOT a good choice, Mate! These buses are hardly well-liked in the UK (by drivers and passengers alike), because they are slow (borderline unsafe when fully-loaded), uncomfortable / noisy (lots of RUclips clips supporting this), and not particularly stable (especially when fully loaded). Reliability is not exactly stellar either. Importing even Dennis Darts or Volvo B7RLE's would have been much better (particularly the Volvo - with the right driver, these can really fly!)
These buses are absolutely crap! The body is lightweight which saves on fuel costs which is why operators buy them because they are cheap to buy and cheap to run but the effect of lightweight bodywork like this is rattles and squeaking constantly. The ride quality is very poor with constant rattling and basically non existent suspension. The emergency door rattles the most. The leg room is poor in comparison to older designs like the Eclipse or Pulsar because they are shorter, again to save money. The ones with the cummins engine jerk badly through the gears and often lose gears. The cummins engine makes a high pitched screech whereas in other buses with exactly the same cummins engine (such as the enviro 200) the engine does not sound like this. The ones with the mercedes engine vibrate when on idle. Awful awful buses. I am lucky that Arriva has just purchased new Enviro 200 MMC's here instead because knowing Arriva they love to buy cheap but they probably got a good deal on the Enviro 200's as it was part of a larger order that included Enviro 400's as well so that avoided streetlites which I am lucky for as they are so crap! I would rather ride much older buses like a 2008 optare solo rather than a new streetlite.
I am a London bus driver and these StreetShites are simply the worst bus I've ever driven. Abysmal suspension, piss poor acceleration, very noisy and everything rattles and squeaks. Total piles of junk.
James Christmas Do their job well our 15 Plate streetlites break down day in day out, an Enginner said the old Darts are more reliable than the streetlites.
+James Christmas They don't "do their job well" Streetlights are very unreliable, and horrible when they do work. I don't know why First keeps buying them, the replacement parts must cost more than the fuel savings. Stick to ADL, Wright were a fine body builder, shouldn't move into mechanicals, Marshall made that mistake...
Exploring North East Buses you alright James how you doing...? As you can probably tell I’ve been quiet on RUclips and Flickr for the past two thirds of a year. As you may gather this has been because what happened with us put me off. I plan to return in four months and I have a big backlog of unpublished videos (and un-uploaded photos). I plan on making my big return in four months’ time; when I do so how would you feel about leaving the past in the past and moving on...? I literally have no hard feelings... Rowan
Absolutely rubbish bus with unbearable amount of noise, terrible steering, confused gearbox and so on! I am a bus driver and everyday have to pray not to start my shift with a Streetlite!
"Nothing to write home about" - you get spoiled with uprated engines on some exports such as this one! In the U.K. 200hp is 11.3-11.7m lightweight single decker territory!
Yeah this size bus would have a 150hp engine in UK, and will change gear really early unless you are stamping on the throttle
@@MichaelFlatman a lot of what your feeling about many buses by private operators in the UK is simply engine & gearbox software configurations slowing everything down and making the vehicle feel very lazy..
Public service should never be in private hands!
Its a cheap bus for operators to save money on but yet it spends half the time off the road broken down
Our ones overheat and sound like a jet when the fans start going lol
I don't think these are too bad. As long as they are put on a town or city route (I think they are totally powerless and underperforming on rural / faster roads), I actually quite like them. Though I would agree with some of you that some can be extremely rattly, and sluggish too. My local bus company (yes I also live in the UK lol) operates a total fleet of 27 Streetlites, mostly used on town routes.
I live in Waterford, Ireland and this city received 17 of these buses brand new in December 2018. I rarely use buses being a taxi driver, and only time I ever use a bus is to collect my car whenever its in a garage. I agree with the negative comments I've read here.
The company who build these buses (Wrightbus) went out of business in September 2019.
Same here in Waterford. the buses was cheap to buy , the government to give them to Bus Eireann . i Drive Tallow to Dungarvan Buses where we have 3 of them
wrightbus are back now
Wrightbus only went out of business "administratively" (rather than practically). The day after administration, they were bought by Brian Souter (the owner of Stagechaoch) and are still making hundreds of rattly, poor build quality buses each year !
This bus is well know in the UK, for the wrong reasons. 'Streetshites' are known to set fire, they have little to no suspension, they have very poor acceleration and struggle to get up any form of gradient over about 5%, and lastly, they are loathed by almost all of the people who use them.
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slower than a slug here in the UK, might be something to do with programming/emissions control. Transmission isn't good that's for sure, and off the line acceleration is the bad point.
I'm driving one right now and I agree with this comment, the suspension is terrible, except when you are on newly paved road, then it's fine. And the gearbox can't make up it's mind. It's hard to drive smoothly.
Agreed with all comments apart from the ones that label as positive. I drive these every day and i can tell you now that these are by far the worst buses i have ever driven!! Period!! Hate is a strong word so i wont use that but i certainly dislike these buses. I drive round small very tight residential areas and i actually find it easier in a double decker or a 12 metre tempo to drive around them in than these street lites. Just purely down to the fact that there is very little acceleration from a stand still. Its very hard to brake in a nice smooth linear fashion due to the gearbox f**k assing around continuoulsy! Also due to the gearbox assing around the accleration through the gears at low speeds feels jerky. Basically at low speeds it feels like your in a battle constantly to try and stop it from jerking back and forth. I literraly feel a sense of anxiety and tight chetedness when driving one of these. Someone in the comments above wrote that they have been known to catch fire, it really would not surprise me if they were deliberately set on fire by the drivers intentionally so that they would not have to drive these satanic flee infested misery cubes!!!
I've never driven this bus but i am currently driving something very alike in looks and design, Optare Solo, Worst buses I ever driven!
For anyone who's looking at the Streetlite as a bus and basing their entire judgement on its polished shiny paintwork, LED 'Xenon look' headlamps, and LED rear lamps, and general clinical cleanliness and space inside the vehicle, I can be honest about this bus because I have driven lots of the 11 metre 'Overhang' fronted Streetlites with the 3.9 Cummins ISBe engine. So here I go with my own experiences... It is rubbish for both driver and passenger. The vehicles air suspension is rock-rigid on all four wheels. Every single wheel sucks right into every pot hole and sunken drain cover you can see. Driver and passenger can feel all of this bumping and bashing around. The power steering is twice the weight of every other bus power steering system. To turn, it feels heavy, like the power steering doesn't work. To brake using only the retarder, you have to hold the brake pedal until you hear and feel an electronic "whizzz or wheee" which varies massively. Some streetlite retarders snatch violently, others are smooth, some are weak. If the Streetlite is a 'Micro hybrid' model (Electric/Diesel engine) then the brake pedal must be tapped first, before holding it again for the endurance brake retarder. So to stop the micro hybrid model you must press the brake pedal TWICE (which is dangerous in an emergency stop) to slow the vehicle to stop. If you don't press the brake pedal twice, the electric forward propulsion motor will carry on forcing the bus forwards when you are trying to brake. Thus causing a direct conflict between you braking and the bus accelerating. How dangerous is that? Not to mention other dangerous factors like a self-cancelling interior ceiling light which stays on for 30 minutes before blacking the entire bus out. Dipped LED Headlamps which dazzle other cars and motorcycles infront. LED Headlights which reflect bright light from torrential rainfall making it harder to see darker details on a raining night. And of course, cheap red 'Thump the button' emergency glass escapes. If its rattling 4cyl 3.9L engine and the constant "Whirrrrrr" of the Voith gearbox doesn't wind you up hearing it all day. The acceleration of the underpowered 3.9 engine combined with the voith gearbox will drive you potty. Not only is it noisy but the voith transmission can't cope with the lack of power delivered by the 3.9 engine. It keeps dropping down a gear to compensate for the lack of power. So all you get is an engine note which keeps singing high then low between a high gear and a low gear totally confused as to what gear it needs to drive the entire bus. Oh, the half-power power steering isn't the only thing you should worry about. Don't forget the 'Low friction/Easy roll' tyres which feel like they are made of hard plastic. So everytime you turn to go round a corner on any dry/wet road surface this bus wants to slide and carry on in a straight line even when your wheels are turned. You can feel it 'Skating' like it's got bald tread or black ice. A few good things I can say about this bus. The drivers seat winds down low like a car drivers seat. The dashboard display and where the driver sits is a closely surrounded area like a car. That's the only positive thing I can say
What about reversing? Reversing one of these is a nightmare, you have to have your foot to the floor and it will crawl backwards
Same problem I thought it was just our 3 ones we use
That is a software limitation - ordered by purchasers. It's to save on axle wear, as an axle that spends 99% of it's time going forward, wears fast when going backwards (certainly at any speed).
Have you done a review of the two-door door-forward one?
If only the company I work for didn't have a mostly StreetShite fleet, I really cannot express how crap these buses really are, the 17 plate demonstrator was laid up at the depot with a defect sticker on it so that should say a lot
Why Australasia you could have had another bus from the UK which is good? Enviro 200? Enviro 400? Enviro 300? Optare? NBfL? Anything but the streetshite!
Im happy that it failed
The hate on this bus is insane. But I do agree they are quite bad. I remember getting on two of these as a return trip and both of them had a strange rattling and banging sound coming from where you would suspect the rear axle to be. Im 6ft 4 roughly and to sit straight and not on an angle on one of these is impossible but then again so are most for me but this by far is worst
If this has got a Mercedes engine, why are these not as good as the Citaros? Bloody hell...
Because it's an entirely different chassis and body. Citaros are German-designed and made. The chassis is far superior and the build quality also far better. The Wright Streetlite is made without love in Northern Ireland, built to a (cheap) price. PS. A new Citaro2 costs around 40% more than an equivalent Wright Streetlite.
This model was proved in the jungle of the hot streets of Santiago in Chile and it runs with high performance. The critics got a positive impresion as it is very suitable for the services in the periphery of the city.
This is known as the Wrongbus Lampost in the UK and that says alot.
I swear that came from me originally, LOL
also HeapShite
@Hotpoint2005 I actually went on First Cymru (ex-West of England) Door Forward ISB4.5/Voith 47548 SN14FFY longer distance on a wrong route working (end to end TrawsCymru T1 from Aberystwyth to Carmarthen, a 2 hour and 15 minute journey) and my friendly Mid Wales Travel subcontracted driver was at the wheel and although it wouldn't go past 50mph (a whole 12mph slower than an Enviro200) we were both saying that actually they're not as bad as people make out...
BA RBLX_t789 Some call them Shitlites and Craplites
Lampost lol
Why couldn’t they have kept Wright Pulsar 2’s
* b10ble’s
Arriva stopped offering chassis from VDL I’m sure a Pulsar 3 would have been built if Arriva stuck with VDL since all it needed was a euro 6 ISBe it’s shocking how quickly Wright went from building their best body the Renown to the worst being the Streetlite
As a driver, never hated bus so much. Ugly, awkward, nothing feels right about it. Just a big mess. Undescribable.
Thank god I only have to drive them in very very rare occasions. But even that feels too much...
There's a route I use one or two Sundays per month. As a passenger, they're incredibly uncomfortable and rattle like mad.
The route uses Enviro400 MMCs Monday to Saturday, and the Sunday allocation is streetlites because it interworks with another route... awful buses I really do feel sorry for those who have to drive them
In the Netherlands we had one under the Name VDL Citea MLE88 But it didnt succeed here
That's a different chassis and bus altogether. Same engine but everything else in the Citea is completely different to the Wright Streetlite. Built by entirely different companies.
I thought they where only sold in the UK?
*hoped
William Baker what u mean lol
AE86 INITIAL D I hoped no more people had to be subjected to these atrocities
William Baker well lol
No Anti glare Blacklight for the driver 😒
No Australia No! You do NOT want to import these awful buses to your country! Take this from an actual bus driver who had to drive these things day in, day out.
Adam Holmes I
I think they have in 2020, very bad choice
Was in a Streetshite in London that broke down on its first day of service!
Route 228 if anyone here knows London buses.
That is *PATHETIC* . TFL are soooooooo thick. First streetshites and then class 345 and 710 (got to admit, they are very good trains) are made of *cheap plastic!!* Do us a favour and show Chris Grayling the way out of the tories!!
The StreetWreck, Brought to you by Wrongbus ltd
no. it is a streetshite not a streetwreck. get ya facts wright xD (not meant to be angry, jokingly)
the wrong bus Adelante077
PANTHER ZONE STUDIO a better insult for the double decker equivalent is the Shitdeck.
or the "StreetDick." ;)
WeControlEverything YouSeeAndHear LOL!!!! THAT WAS THE MOST FUNNIEST COMMENT I'VE EVER READ!!! yes they deserve the name streetdick. Wrightbus need to improve *MASSIVELY* in euro 7 Becuase these (as jim carrey says in liar liar), worthless steaming pile of cow dung are a pathetic excuse for a bus.
Judging by the comments, i'm not surprised that this bus is nicknamed "Streetshite".
Hardly "New".....been making these in the UK for YEARS now.
The_ALEX_ELLIS_Channel yep, came out around 2010/2011
The_ALEX_ELLIS_Channel 2009
dennis trident william no, 2010/2011
No, about 2011/2014.
2011/2014 doesn’t make any sense.
Hard to imagine the same Mercedes who make racing cars made this underpowered engine! It will struggle like Caitlyn Jenner in a beauty pageant when on the open road, though hopefully Daimler / Mercedes will add some extra tweaks to the output soon. Also, get one with kickdown function as the ones without are painfully slow
joepublic200 indeed it does!
we have 2019 Buses and still as bad No Kickdown Reverse is painfull top speed 89Kms
There's nothing wrong with the Merc engine; it's just that the Streetlite is the wrong application for it. That engine is great in a small midi bus. But in a 11-12m city bus, it's just out of it's depth. Like putting a 1.0, 3cyl engine in a Mondeo .... oh, hang on... 😄
Over here our drivers say there underpowerd pieces of shit that cant go over 30 mph and there too small but some of the transdev ones numberd 601 602 603 604 are aparently good and the rest are shit
i have 10 of these streetlite wf's and they don't last, it's not smooth and comfy
This bus and the others only go about 45mph
One word for the streetlites they are totally cheap and nasty they are uncomfortable noisy worst bus ever
I agree with everyone else that these buses are piles of crap. Have them with First Aberdeen. They just rattle over every little bump, underpowered and uncomfortable. The Gemini 2 with the Volvo B9TL or B5TL engine will always be the best bus made by Wright bus and is on par with the Enviro 400. The new Gemini 3 has come with mixed reviews especially its ‘interesting’ styling…
Streetlight more like heap light
Wright Pulsar 2 were the best, these are shite
The Wright Gemini, plus the single decker bodies, were infinitely superior to these crocks of crap.
Mark O'Neill i know right, these new ones are more worse that Wright Pulsar 1
I forget what they put on the Volvo B10BLE chassis that First Group hoovered up in substantial number but that was my favourite body style of theirs followed by the Endurance on the B10B which West Midlands and Merseybus, among others, took in number too.....
NOT a good choice, Mate! These buses are hardly well-liked in the UK (by drivers and passengers alike), because they are slow (borderline unsafe when fully-loaded), uncomfortable / noisy (lots of RUclips clips supporting this), and not particularly stable (especially when fully loaded). Reliability is not exactly stellar either. Importing even Dennis Darts or Volvo B7RLE's would have been much better (particularly the Volvo - with the right driver, these can really fly!)
It looks okay for a bus
I’m from the UK I’ve been on these buses and they are the bloody awful
I do too. And my local operator seems to really love collecting them (yes, its first)
These buses are absolutely crap! The body is lightweight which saves on fuel costs which is why operators buy them because they are cheap to buy and cheap to run but the effect of lightweight bodywork like this is rattles and squeaking constantly. The ride quality is very poor with constant rattling and basically non existent suspension. The emergency door rattles the most. The leg room is poor in comparison to older designs like the Eclipse or Pulsar because they are shorter, again to save money. The ones with the cummins engine jerk badly through the gears and often lose gears. The cummins engine makes a high pitched screech whereas in other buses with exactly the same cummins engine (such as the enviro 200) the engine does not sound like this. The ones with the mercedes engine vibrate when on idle. Awful awful buses. I am lucky that Arriva has just purchased new Enviro 200 MMC's here instead because knowing Arriva they love to buy cheap but they probably got a good deal on the Enviro 200's as it was part of a larger order that included Enviro 400's as well so that avoided streetlites which I am lucky for as they are so crap! I would rather ride much older buses like a 2008 optare solo rather than a new streetlite.
Absolutely rubbish bus, extremely abysmal. Suitable for Gladbeck.
TayTransport (Ross) haha I get that
Awful, awful buses.
I am a London bus driver and these StreetShites are simply the worst bus I've ever driven. Abysmal suspension, piss poor acceleration, very noisy and everything rattles and squeaks. Total piles of junk.
Any roller coaster is way more smooth.
These are great buses, there are so many in the UK. They're not the quickest, but buses aren't sports cars and they do their job well
James Christmas Do their job well our 15 Plate streetlites break down day in day out, an Enginner said the old Darts are more reliable than the streetlites.
James Christmas
Nonsense.
+James Christmas They don't "do their job well" Streetlights are very unreliable, and horrible when they do work. I don't know why First keeps buying them, the replacement parts must cost more than the fuel savings. Stick to ADL, Wright were a fine body builder, shouldn't move into mechanicals, Marshall made that mistake...
Exploring North East Buses you alright James how you doing...? As you can probably tell I’ve been quiet on RUclips and Flickr for the past two thirds of a year. As you may gather this has been because what happened with us put me off. I plan to return in four months and I have a big backlog of unpublished videos (and un-uploaded photos). I plan on making my big return in four months’ time; when I do so how would you feel about leaving the past in the past and moving on...? I literally have no hard feelings...
Rowan
I don't think you ever driven a bus because your admiration for a crap like the Streetlite shows you know nothing about buses!
shitlite
Sucks for a wrightbus
Wright Streetlite? Shite StreetShite more like.
Why would Australia, want to import these?
These buses are terrible and i'm pretty sure everyone knows in the UK they're known as Streetshites.
TopGearDog Becuase Wrightbus are evil. They just want to crush the joy out of bus enthusiasts, Bus drivers and passengers.
@@nightelectricityuniverse7349 lol I work for wrightbus
@@twist1394 what is the working experience like?
I absolutely hate this bus and as a driver I have to drive this and it sounds absolutely horrible
“Getting around tight residential streets”? On a bus notorious for having a shit turning circle? Behave.
Rattling peice of crap and it’s bangs and shakes on every corner struggles on hills don’t get them
Absolutely rubbish bus with unbearable amount of noise, terrible steering, confused gearbox and so on! I am a bus driver and everyday have to pray not to start my shift with a Streetlite!
The worst bus ever made
Optare Are beter buses
barely
Optare Buses are the worst because they're always broken down every time I ride them