" And sex differences. Women tend to have longer thighs and shorter shins
for a given leg length. The point is, I'm NOT exceptionally leggy, even
if my femur may be an inch longer than Ms Average (and possibly the same
length as Mr Average). If I can't fit in comfortably, half the adult
population won't either. That is poor design.
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Helen D. Vecht:
Edgware.
As one of the average-height-but-long-femur contingent, I agree with you
entirely. It seems to me that the people who design bus seating layouts and
the people from operating companies who commission them are all in the short
femur category. Or, more likely in the case of OCs, they don't give a 4X
about passenger comfort. They just want to be able to say they've put so
many new buses into service and that the buses will seat x-amount of
passengers (to placate those who detest all that standing space) and blah
and blah .... It's all grist for the mill when it comes to getting their
contracts from TfL renewed.
Pardon? Did I hear someone say "cynical"?