(03 Mar 2015, 11:07 am)Greg in Weardale wrote Renowns have served the Lime routes well for 15 years and could have done so quite adequately for another few had it not been for the pedantic DDA rules consigning them to the scrapyard - they are perfectly accessible for wheelchairs and the disabled; it's just an obsession with an extra millimetre between seats and a degree too much in the slope of the floor. I'll bet Streetlites won't be around in 15 years time - they'll have dropped to bits long before then.
They could have modified them to make them comply, but there were some of the oldest vehicles in the fleet, so investment in new vehicles is a better option.