26 Aug 2017, 1:42 pm
#347
(26 Aug 2017, 9:13 am)mb134 I agree that Eldon Square is not a well designed bus station in the slightest, though I assumed the steering rear axle of larger coaches would help massively when turning at the bottom of the bus station?
I'm not at all sure how long the DAF coaches that Arriva used on the 685 were, but I can't imagine them being massively shorter?
I was surprised at how many seats there seem to be downstairs on the B5TLs, they seem to be slightly longer than the current B9TLs? I assume this longer length, and therefore additional overall capacity, allowed Go North East to improve the overall specification of the bus in terms of installing tables without reducing capacity from the current allocation?
About the length of a StreetLite if this is anything to go by.
As for installing tables, its just a case of flipping a set of seats around, with the combined legroom being used for a table.
