On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Nigel Pendse wrote:

"John Rowland" wrote in
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"Marc Brett" wrote in message
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On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 17:49:53 +0100, Tom Anderson
wrote:

Why are bendy-buses not double-decker?

You couldn't have a continuous floor upstairs, but I don't see why
the front half and the back half couldn't have self-contained
upstairs sections.

Wouldn't it waste space to have two sets of stairs?

You say it wastes space, i say it makes boarding faster. It's a tradeoff.

I think the solution would be three sets of stairs, one at each door,
possibly with the middle door-stair set reserved for boarding, and the
ends for alighting, to eliminate conflicting movements. The middle set
might have to be extra-wide or something.

tom

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