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Bevan Price[_3_] · January 23rd 09, 05:54 PM posted to uk.transport.london,uk.transport.buses

"Paul Corfield" wrote in message
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On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 08:59:10 -0800 (PST), wrote:

If Boris does get his way and boot all the bendies out of london where
would they go? Theres a lot of them, they can't be sold off in europe
because they're RHD, they're far too new to scrap and they're really
only suitable for a city enviroment. Are there any other cities that
they could be effectively used in?

there is a suggestion that some will end up in Malta. The government
there has employed consultants who have come up with a scheme to
completely revise the Maltese bus system. This would scrap the current
scheme that uses largely second hand buses run by owner drivers in a
form of cooperative. The proposals envisage a hierarchy of services
with bendies on the very high demand corridors. There are very few
double deck buses in Malta as there was long term resistance to their
use so single decks are the main bus type. The article is in the latest
Buses Magazine.

My own theory is that most of them will sit in yards and decay. The big
problem is the third door in the rear section. All other bendies -
apart possibly from those on the Eden project shuttle - are two doored
because there is no open boarding elsewhere in the UK.

And in Manchester, many / most passengers seem to ignore the second door,
and alight at the front, even those who had been sitting in the rear portion
of the bus.

Bevan