"Roger Traviss" wrote:
Yes, in the UK at least. I can perhaps see there being some sort of world
market for them, but maybe rather more as a novelty rather than as an
integral part of a city's transport system. (Serious question -who/where
might conceivably be interested in buying some for proper, full on
day-to-day use?) Of course there's the obvious RHD/LHD issue - if there
was to be an LHD version, there'd need to be sufficient demand.

Victoria BC has used double deckers for something like 10 years, in two
models.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vi...ubledecker.JPG


Yeah, but would they want a bus half-designed for use with conductors and a
(part-time) open rear platform?

If a version was produced without the rear platform then you start asking
questions as to whether the rear staircase is necessary at all, and if it
isn't - well, that's kinda two lynchpin elements of the buses design that'd
be in the bin, whereupon you start asking whether there'd be that much point
in it. Just being brutally realistic.