On Sat, 22 Sep 2012 10:49:39 +0100, "tim....."
wrote:

"Richard" wrote in message
.. .

Extraordinary how so much of the civilised world thinks that one door
is enough on a bus.

Do they?

I was criticising opinion here, that seems to think that one is enough
when, as you say, the rest of the world has other ideas and might be
right. We didn't always do it this way - what happened? Unions (see
Dublin Bus) or lawyers?

Out of town buses might not, but then they don't in the UK either

Yes, but many countries simply don't have the dense (or dense-ish)
interurban network that we do here, or use coaches instead. Perhaps
this is why we have diverged a bit from other places, creating the
idea of a bus that is a compromise for both types of service and over
time dropped the extra door.

Richard.