(13 Mar 2022, 9:23 am)Storx wrote It was quite a big problem down there, reported that the avoidance was nearly double on a bendy bus vs a conventional decker down there
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/may/....transport
That was more a London perspective rather than up here though. They're just awful things anywhere, I'm not sure how true the artic reference is anyway I'm not aware of it being said anywhere recently.
Fare evasion might have gone up by about 2.5k per bus on average, but that must have been expected when the switch from AEC Routemasters to articulated buses also coincided with losing the two-person operation. Arguably that average increase in fare evasion is a drop in the ocean of what it would have been to employ conductors for each bus.
As MurdnunoC has said, the fuel consumption on them was shocking and is likely a major reason why they only lasted 5 minutes up here.