Re: New Melbourne trams have fewer seats than the old ones but they're longer!

["Dave Proctor" <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au>]

"David McLoughlin" <davemclNOSPAM@iprolink.co.nz> wrote in message
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> The issue of fewer seats in low-floor buses has been an ongoing debate
> in the mtu-t group. It appears that in North America, low-floor buses
> are not very well designed and have fewer seats than standard buses
> because they don't have seats over the wheel wells, for example. But
> low-floor buses here in NZ have as many seats as high-floor buses.

Same in Sydney - without actually counting the number of seats, the low
floors seem to have the same capacity as high floor, AFTER you take into
account that they are wheelchair accessible and therefore have the
wheelchair parking bays.
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Dave

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