What about articulated buses?

**KIANTOT** · February 6th, 2012 07:55 PM

Pag double decker kailangan pag sakay bayad agad, mahirapan maningil ang conductor niyan

**niky** · February 7th, 2012 10:26 AM

Originally Posted by cripple_rooster

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

A half-empty single bus is losing you money every minute it's on the road and burning diesel to run the airconditioner.

But a half-empty single bus will be losing less money than a three-quarters empty articulated bus. Two half-empty single buses would be losing more, but when you have two, you can garage one and just run the other. Makes for more flexible operation.

I like double-deckers... upper deck is fun... but they're not going to fit on our roads.

**Monseratto** · February 7th, 2012 10:43 AM

**niky** · February 7th, 2012 11:09 AM

Now let's see that fit underneath a pedestrian overpass.

**ghosthunter** · February 7th, 2012 01:00 PM

Originally Posted by niky

Now let's see that fit underneath a pedestrian overpass.

That's the current problem with re-introducing double-deck buses again in the metro, many (if not most) pedestrian overpasses were constructed with limited clearance for tall vehicles.

**cripple_rooster** · February 8th, 2012 11:41 AM

Usual height of a double-decker is between 4,2m and 4,5m. But the ground clearance is not so high as you can see in that old picture, comparing the Leyland DD with the Hino Blue Ribbon and that yellow bus I didn't know the bodybuilder.

**uls** · February 8th, 2012 12:20 PM

there are reasons why bus operators here do not use double deckers and extended buses

if double deckers and extended buses are applicable here (and profitable) they would have used them already

it's not as if buses operators here don't know double deckers and extended buses exist and that somebody has to introduce those kinds of buses to them

**niky** · February 8th, 2012 04:44 PM

Originally Posted by cripple_rooster

Usual height of a double-decker is between 4,2m and 4,5m. But the ground clearance is not so high as you can see in that old picture, comparing the Leyland DD with the Hino Blue Ribbon and that yellow bus I didn't know the bodybuilder.

I would wager 4.2 is the one without a roof? Roofless won't work here in the Philippines.

4.5 meters is too high. Minimum clearance to overpasses on major highways is around 4.2 meters (EDIT: internet check... 4.27 meters, actually). On minor roads, you're lucky to even get close to 4 meters of height clearance.

**cripple_rooster** · February 9th, 2012 07:43 AM

Originally Posted by niky

I would wager 4.2 is the one without a roof? Roofless won't work here in the Philippines.

4.5 meters is too high. Minimum clearance to overpasses on major highways is around 4.2 meters (EDIT: internet check... 4.27 meters, actually). On minor roads, you're lucky to even get close to 4 meters of height clearance.

Roofless ones are around 4 meters high, intended only for city tours. Some actually have a retractile canvas roof, altough this wouldn't be the most suitable for urban transit since it wouldn't be easy to fit the aircon.