David Cantrell wrote:
On Thu, Oct 03, 2019 at 11:43:40AM -0000, Recliner wrote:
David Cantrell wrote:
The second staircase helps make boarding quicker. It's a reasonable
trade-off IMO.
Not for long. The proposal is to only allow boarding by the front door. So
the rear staircase will be for exit-only, which makes it an expensive waste
of space.

If anything having a one way system will make it even better as you
won't have people waiting to go up the stairs while others come down.


It's not a problem with normal 'deckers: people come down before a stop,
and go up after it.

So have a bus costing almost twice as much, with lower capacity, worse fuel
consumption, less comfortable, and needing more maintenance than an
off-the-shelf hybrid double-decker make even less sense than before.