New Citaros | City Bus Manager | South Coast

Since its inception, SV's route 4 between Newport and Ventnor has been running with full size O530 Citaros brought in from East Kent Busways. Now, Southern Vectis decides that it's best to save the O530s for a place where their capacity will be better utilised, and downsize the buses used on the 4. Southern Vectis decide to go with the C2K Citaro in order to maintain the quality of the Citaro vehicles, which have been very popular with both staff and passengers alike. Additionally, with Solent Red's OmniCity refurbishment programme running behind schedule, it's time for them to launch the new services 6 and 61 with unrefurbished examples of the OC type, still wearing the Landore scheme and even carrying legals referencing the CityBus marque.