(09 Feb 2025, 8:22 pm)ne14ne1 wrote Even on the likes of the 10 & 21 when it’s full to capacity with standees right up the front doors at peak times, dual doors would make it so much easier for us to manouve around inside the bus and to alight from it.
I regularly find myself stepping off the bus to allow other passengers to squeeze off.
We used to have dual door buses here.
Numerous other cities in the UK utilise dual doors buses on at least some of their routes.
Countless cities across the world use dual (or more) doored buses.
Public transport should be quick & easy to use, and optimised for people, not profit.
So frustrating here.
See when stuff is full to capacity then it should be having a capacity increase if you ask me but when it's all about profits they don't care.
imo one of the biggest problems in the UK is the refusal to use bendy buses, on busy routes where people do generally short journeys so having a seat doesn't really matter they're much much better for capacity with multiple doors and the lack of time wasted with people trundling up and down stairs.
Sadly local government seem to be totally aware of it aswell since they're all pushing the 'Glider' buses which are just glorified bendy buses, let's be honest, but if anyone dared announced bendy buses then it'd be like WW3 with the media because of London.
It doesn't help that we use reversal bus stations either which are just generally crap for everything bar saving space which can't take dual door buses at all.