On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:29:15 -0000
"Tim Roll-Pickering" wrote:
And here's one for you - if the bendies were so fantastic and the double
deckers clearly so outdated why weren't there bendies on more routes?

I've no idea. Cost, reliability, lots of nearly new DDs already in service
that they didn't want to bin? AFAIR the bendies replaced a lot of routemasters
that were put out to grass. Anyway , I'm simply giving a (former) passengers
point of view, not an operational one.

People in this group and others talk about double decker trains not being as a
good a solution for transporting a lot of passengers compared to longer single
deck trains because of dwell times at stations yet for some reason that logic
goes out the window when appled to buses. The only reason I can see is some
misty eyed nostaligia for double decker buses. God knows why.

B2003