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However, the MTA has no current plans to purchase double decker buses. In San Francisco, California, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency operated one Alexander Dennis double-decker bus as a demonstrator between 12 December 2007 and 8 January 2008. [138] The bus was running on some high capacity routes as trial. [139]
The Alexander Dennis Enviro400 is a twin-axle low-floor double-decker bus that was built by the British bus manufacturer Alexander Dennis between 2005 and 2018. It replaced the Alexander ALX400 (from which the Enviro400 was developed).
[12] [13] Another was delivered to Delaine Buses in October 2023, the operator's first new Alexander Dennis double-decker. [ 14 ] In February 2023, Reading Buses ordered seven 11.5 m (38 ft) Enviro400 City buses, the first of the type to be built to this length, intended to be built with high-specification interiors with 76 seats for use on ...
The Enviro400 MMC can trace its design roots back to 1997, with the introduction of the Dennis Trident 2, one of the first low-floor double-decker buses to enter service. The model saw immense success at the turn of the millennium, despite financial difficulties facing Dennis Specialist Vehicles during this period.
On Sunday 13 July 2014, the first 3 double decker buses made their debut on Bus Service 972. [13] Bus Contracting Model (BCM) As part of the Bus Contracting Model, some of the Enviro500s were transferred to Tower Transit Singapore under the Bulim bus package in May 2016. Some of these buses were repainted into the lush green livery.
The East Lancs Nordic is a type of low-floor double-decker bus body built by East Lancashire Coachbuilders.It was built on tri-axle double-decker Volvo B7L chassis, with a length of 12 metres and a seating capacity of up to 95 passengers.
The Optare Olympus (introduced in 2006 as the East Lancs Olympus) is a double-decker bus built by Optare, East Lancs and Darwen. It could be built as a body available on Alexander Dennis Enviro400, Volvo B9TL or Scania N230UD/N270UD chassis with the 2-axle and 3-axle variants. It is the double-decker equivalent of the Optare Esteem. Some 3-axle ...
The launch of the design for the New Bus for London led to BBC One's The One Show airing a segment on 18 May 2010 reviewing the 100-year history of the London standard double-decker, with John Sergeant reviewing the history of, and riding preserved examples of, the 1910 LGOC B-type, the RT and the original AEC Routemaster.