(03 Aug 2014, 8:55 pm)aureolin wrote Would that not normally be enough to justify? I can think of a good handful of routes that have deckers, yet can't really justify them for half the route. ANE X1/X2 being a good example, and GNE's X1 being another. To me, if you've got mass standees for a 10 mile stretch, then it's a problem that needs resolving.

Have to agree here. It really bugs me that the services in Sunderland which have received gas buses often have standees, throughout the entire route. Services 16 and 20 are by far the worst for having standees in my opinion, and double deckers would have been hugely beneficial.

Having standees then impacts on timekeeping. I can't imagine when designing timetables that management account for someone at the very back of the bus who was sitting down having to squeeze through loads of people to get off.