What about articulated buses?

**cripple_rooster** · February 5th, 2012 10:18 AM

These ones are usually 18-metre long, power goes from 210HP to 370HP, and the transmission is always automatic. Originally intended to be used in segregated tracks, but have been popular in bigger Brazilian cities due to the high passenger demand in some routes and the maneuverability is not so bad at all. Would this be a good option to Manila?

**ghosthunter** · February 5th, 2012 10:31 AM

It would just eat up more road space without much gains.

A double decker bus would actually be a better solution. It would half the road space (used by two buses). BUT the problem with double decker buses in Manila is the vertical clearance between the road and overpasses.

**baludoy** · February 5th, 2012 11:20 AM

meron na iyan dati sa manila. kung di ako nagkakamali megabus pa ata tawag dyan dati. edsa lang ata ang biyahe nung mga bus na iyan before

**ghosthunter** · February 5th, 2012 01:45 PM

Originally Posted by baludoy

meron na iyan dati sa manila. kung di ako nagkakamali megabus pa ata tawag dyan dati. edsa lang ata ang biyahe nung mga bus na iyan before

Yup. I think the problem was maintenance of these specialized buses.

**niky** · February 5th, 2012 01:50 PM

Maintenance itself isn't the issue. The issue is the huge discrepancy in passenger volume from peak to off-peak hours. Such a bus would be tremendously inefficient during off-peak hours, which means that there's no incentive for private companies to run them. If the bus lines were government run, or if line franchises were exclusive or limited to prevent over-competition, you could run buses like these on high-volume routes like EDSA.

**uls** · February 5th, 2012 01:54 PM

ngek

articulated buses?

as if there arent enough half-filled buses sa EDSA

lalo traffic

the problem isnt that there arent enough buses or buses arent big enough

the problem is there are too many buses

nag aagawan ng pasahero

they clog up parts of EDSA coz they're waiting for passengers

they can't reach full capacity coz they're too many of them

**cripple_rooster** · February 6th, 2012 04:46 PM

Articulated buses were originally intended to replace a variable amount of smaller vehicles with a larger one, cutting operational costs.

But I also prefer the double-deckers.

There were a few double-deckers performing urban transit duties in Brazil from the 80's to early 90's, mainly in São Paulo and Goiânia, but nowadays in South America they're more restricted to city-tours or long distance road trips.

They're still perceived by many users as "high-feature".

**uls** · February 6th, 2012 05:00 PM

but will the bus operators here replace their standard buses with those?

i don't think so

**cripple_rooster** · February 6th, 2012 05:05 PM

Originally Posted by uls

but will the bus operators here replace their standard buses with those?

i don't think so

Okay, but it wouldn't be actually a bad deal for them.

**robot.sonic** · February 6th, 2012 05:27 PM

pag dumadaan ako sa edsa ang karamihan sa mga bus half-full (yup, optimist ako) lang. Nagsisiksikan na lang sa MRT ang mga pumapasok sa trabaho.

Sa palagay ko dapat na bawasan ang mga bus dyan at gawing mas convenient ang MRT.

Pag maganda ang MRT, yung mga bus companies na mismo ang magbabawas ng kusa.