Arriva North West - Runcorn Depot

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RE: Arriva North West - Runcorn Depot

(03/03/2013 00:35)K853 MTJ Wrote:  Original announcements on the Arriva site state they are for busway circulars, and the original GBF funding was stated to be for 10 MAN EcoCity gas buses for Busway circular routes. If you look in Buses magazine when the funding was announced, that also mentioned theyre for use on the busway :-) of course drivers have known about it for a while so word will have inevitably spread by word of mouth.

This was something I noticed when I had my first look around 5001, the entrance area between the wheelarch and the cab was rather narrow. This is despite the cab being big enough for the driver and a mate to bunk in together with room to spare! As what is stil a very new vehicle type, design flaws are expected, but something like such a narrow entrance area is quite a big oversight in the design IMO. At the end of the day they are really nice buses overall and built to a good spec, and its nice to see alternative fuel sources starting to creep their way into Arrivas fleet.

No design flaw as will be DDA compliant - not aware of many buses that can comfortably cope with unfolded double width child pushchairs.