(19 Aug 2013, 5:22 pm)W179SCU wrote Vykings aren't bad buses. GNE should have converted them to single door like the Presidents.
Converting the Vykings to single door would have more-or-less double the refurbishment cost (Quoted in Buses Magazine around the time as £20000 per bus) as they are DDA-compatible in Dual Door format but without spending money to alter the front door and wider the gangway there, they wouldn't meet DDA. Hence the reason they were left as dual door.