Annabel Smyth wrote the following in:


On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 at 19:18:23, Marratxi
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"Annabel Smyth" wrote in message
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On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 at 17:49:53, Tom Anderson
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Why are bendy-buses not double-decker?
Because wheelchair users can't climb stairs.
Annabel Smyth
Surely they could be accomodated on the lower deck ?
You would have thought..... but maybe it would be seen as being
Unfair to people with disabilities to have areas of the bus where
they can't go?

No it's not. I don't know where you got that idea from. Low floor
double deckers with wheelchair ramps are considered fully accessible
for wheelchair users. The fact that a wheelchair user could not get
upstairs in a double decker bendy bus is most certainly *not* the
reason that bendy buses are not double decker.

In light of the number of misinterpretations of the original question
("Why are there no double decker bendy buses?" being interpreted as
"Why use bendy buses instead of double deckers?"), I will add that
wheelchair users not being able to travel upstairs in a double decker
is not the reason that bendy buses are used. They are used because they
have a higher capacity than double deckers and because when used in
conjunction with pay before you board and all door boarding, they spend
less time at stops (in theory). There are probably other reasons that
other people know more about than I do.

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