(24 Jun 2023, 9:41 pm)wibblejunior wrote I've always found the 1-2 seating configuration towards the front of Arriva Pulsars 1513-1523 to be rather unusual. I think the HW07 Citaros that GNE used to have had a similar seating configuration.
Same with the side facing seats over the rear wheel arches that Arriva's ex-London DAF ALX400s had (as well as the Y-reg Lowlanders to a lesser extent).
The stairs being in the middle were the bigger problem, design flaw imo as it meant boarding was horribly long. Was a problem in London aswell since everyone boards the bus at the front. It was scrapped in the next batch of them and it gave a right weird layout. They only seated 17 people downstairs in their original layout because of it and were dark imo.
Believe the earliest version of GoAhead's Presidents were the same which got scrapped pretty fast aswell.