(14 Oct 2024, 1:26 pm)Adrian wrote 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.

Completely agree.
We’re always going to be lumbered with single door vehicles if revised or new build infrastructure cannot accommodate dual doors. 

Single door buses here feel so cramped and slow after coming back from cities with dual doors.
I’m sick of having to squeeze all the way to the front to get off crowded buses here.