On 3 Oct, 14:57, MIG wrote:
The reason you normally have to stand on a bendy is that they've only
been deployed on the busiest routes where you'd be standing regardless
of what bus they use - bendies only have a fraction fewer seats. And
no one who's stood on a double decker with more than a handful of
other people would volunteer to do it again.

Here we have both the bendy 25 and double decker 86 running between
Stratford and Ilford on the same route. And I'd much prefer to stand on the
86 than to stand on the 25 any day.

I would similarly prefer the 24 to the 29 and the 53 to the 453. I
know I'm not alone in that.

I prefer, and regularly chose when I lived in the area, to stand on
the 29 than any of the also-standing-room-only deckers on the Finsbury
Park-Camden corridor. Deckers are too narrow for standing and the
perpetual front-to-back passenger flow is very annoying if you're
going more than a couple of stops.

[also at Thoss - bendies have more doors than deckers. Unless you're
going to turn the entire bottom deck into doors, which is a bit
pointless, then you simply can't get the same passenger throughput]

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