How common is 5 a side seating in UK buses? I hadn't seen it until recently when I came across it on an Astons (Veoila) vehicle
2 one side of the aisle, 3 the other, all with seat belts (school bus requirement?)
Thanks for the replies
Presumably this company doesn't have the spare vehicles to separate school and 'normal' services. Not a problem for the adult passengers - most services run near empty outside school hours.
Whilst capacity is increased, leg room and seat width is greatly reduced which make them unpopular on normal 'adult' services. Transdev York have one such vehicle which sometimes appears on the Unibus 44 and is particularly unpopular.
I've experienced First Group using it's own Plaxton bodied coaches with 3+2 seating on rail replacement duties between Swansea and Cardiff, on more than one occasion.
Totally unsuitable and unacceptable for such work but they get away with it!
I think Ulsterbus will use 3+2 regularly in school and public work.
How common is 5 a side seating in UK buses? I hadn't seen it until recently when I came across it on an Astons (Veoila) vehicle
2 one side of the aisle, 3 the other, all with seat belts (school bus requirement?)
And against First Rail Support's own specs!!
I've had 3+2 on SWT rail replacement before now. However, it was only for one journey, and then it was on standby thereafter. That was the first time I had ever seen 3+2 on a bus, but certainly not the last - or most recent.
I was less worried about the seating - apparently it sat 67! - than I was about the practicality of having a B10 winding its way around some very marginal roads in and around Strawberry Hill though...
Never been on one so wouldn't be able to comment I'm afraid, however I was once on an old coach which was standing in as a spare on Goldline (the vast majority of these were got rid of) which was 3+2... not very comfy!How's the legroom?
is it? I'm sure some have crept on to GN suburban replacement coaches in recent weekends...
Quite. I've driven a 70 seat volvo myself on behalf of FCC. Was not nice. I felt guilty. But FRS in their various documents require a 49 seat coach (at least, in the documents I've seen for three different firms across the country I've done rail rep work for).