(13 Oct 2024, 12:21 am)Ambassador wrote Sir Roger French has been Northstar riding.

Can’t quite work out where the dual door reversed to from the tweet

Tho I do agree, until our infrastructure is entirely compliant, operators shouldn’t be using dual door because they’re available and relatively cheap (and that’s all operators)

The problem is, we keep building infrastructure that isn't!

Durham Bus Station is probably our most recent example (give or take a short period of time on North Shields), yet not a single stand could accommodate a dual door vehicle. Previously stand A could, but when they've rebuilt the station, the architects and their railings fetish strike again.

South Shields has one stand (P) that could be used for dual door vehicles, if again we didn't need pointless railings everywhere, and I've never been to North Shields, but looking at photos, there's no way you're getting a ramp out of rear doors there. 

I get that up here, single door vehicles are the norm, but when dual door vehicles are still very much compliant, it's a failing to not plan for their use when designing infrastructure, placing street furniture, raised/dropped kerbs and whatever else. Arguably in the same way that Eldon Square's re-build is too tight for the Plaxton coaches that were on the X9/X10.