On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:52:14 +0100, Tom Anderson
wrote:
On Sun, 26 Jul 2009, MIG wrote:

Never mind class or party politics; what about "I don't like to have a
totally unsuitable vehicle blocking the pedestrian crossings, forcing me
to risk my life to get across the road"?

That's a problem with the drivers, not the buses, and is not restricted to
bendies, although of course it's worse with them.


There is obviously a greater chance that an individual bendy bus will
block a pedestrian crossing because of its greater length, but surely
there is also a lesser frequency of blocking because there are fewer
bendy buses needed for the same route capacity?

I suspect that the second at least partially compensates for the
first, and that the overall daily instances of blocking could well be
about the same.


Are there any real
problems with the bendies which are intrinsic to the bus itself?


Of course, the greater length, articulation and the rear section's
self-steering system make it different, but those differences are
amerliorated to a great extent by there being fewer buses needed for
the same capacity.