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Loooonnnnngggg Bus

  • 07-09-2012 10:14am
    #1
    jester77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭


    Dresden is putting one of the longest buses in the world into service next month (AutoTram Extra Grand Bus). It's 30 meters long and can carry 256 passengers. Here in Hamburg we have 25 meter buses (Van hool agg 300) which can take 180 passengers which always impress me. Can't wait to see how these new buses manage around the city.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tz0FVUeSXfw


Comments

  • #2
    dazberry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,152 ✭✭✭dazberry


    At 30 meters it must take an age for everyone to get on and off via the front door :p

    D.


  • #3
    Hilly Bill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,047 ✭✭✭Hilly Bill


    What happened to our bendy bus?


  • #4
    monument
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 14,093 Mod ✭✭✭✭monument


    Hilly Bill wrote: »
    What happened to our bendy bus?

    Above everything else, not even the bus stops on the route they were put on were suited to them.


  • #5
    CIE
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,463 ✭✭✭CIE


    I'd hate to see that thing jack-knifed across a four-lane city street.


  • #6
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,537 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    Hilly Bill wrote: »
    What happened to our bendy bus?
    The decision to not use the middle or rear doors was very detrimental to their use. Coupled with the cramped Dublin streets and unsuitably small bus stops that they couldn't fully pull into effectively made them unworkable in Dublin so they were disposed of.


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  • #7
    CIE
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,463 ✭✭✭CIE


    Cookie_Monster wrote: »
    The decision to not use the middle or rear doors was very detrimental to their use. Coupled with the cramped Dublin streets and unsuitably small bus stops that they couldn't fully pull into effectively made them unworkable in Dublin so they were disposed of.
    This begs the question as to what will be done with the GT-class' centre door. Very strange culture at DB (and CIE before them) in terms of not using these doors...the first Atlanteans were built with just a front door, and the newer buses have reverted to that (antiquated?) configuration only recently (I usually think of commuter buses as having just the one door, not city buses).


  • #8
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,537 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    CIE wrote: »
    This begs the question as to what will be done with the GT-class' centre door. Very strange culture at DB (and CIE before them) in terms of not using these doors...the first Atlanteans were built with just a front door, and the newer buses have reverted to that (antiquated?) configuration only recently (I usually think of commuter buses as having just the one door, not city buses).

    NTA bought the new ones so specced them with second door. We'll see over the next few months whether they actually get used regularly...


  • #9
    Chris_5339762
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,063 ✭✭✭Chris_5339762


    We have to bear in mind as well that Dresden (and much of Germany) got flattened during the war and street grids changed from Medieval to wide and pretty straight, in a lot of cases. Look at maps! So therefore they are far better suited in Germany to these kind of buses than the medieval streets of Dublin (and indeed large parts of London).


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