(04 Feb 2015, 9:04 pm)aureolin wrote I'm an outsider looking in here, so feel free to shoot me down, but this all seems like a bit of a faff on? Regardless of where the indicators, door open buttons, seat adjusters, etc are - it's still a bus. As long as you're licence to drive it, you know the height and length of it, then it shouldn't be an issue?
I do think type-training is quite important, but it shouldn't be something which goes on for weeks and weeks and weeks on end. Delaying the disposal of buses (where the sale value will be decreasing) as a result of long periods of time to train drivers on buses could make the process seem a bit of a "faff on", I agree.
Included some dashboard shots for interest below:
Go North East: "The all-new Enviro 400 visits Riverside!" by danielgrahamm, on Flickr
[Demonstrator] Interior shot of Go North East's 9132 (LK13AEJ), Wright Streetlite Max by danielgrahamm, on Flickr
[Demonstrator] Interior shot of Go North East's 9133 (YJ62FFB), Optare Versa 11.7m by danielgrahamm, on Flickr
Interior shot of Go North East's 6083, Volvo B9TL Wright Eclipse Gemini by danielgrahamm, on Flickr
Go-Ahead London General: LT299 / LTZ1299 by danielgrahamm, on Flickr