Sep
29
The problem with double-decker buses
ByWhen last we saw the double-decker buses, the MTA was gearing up for a test-run along some busy city arteries. Since then, however, New York City Transit has run into a little problem: As predicted, the bus the MTA is using for its trial is too tall. While passengers love the bi-level buses, the MTA had to postpone trial runs along Riverside Drive and Fifth Ave. because the tree branches hang too low. Oops.
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This is probably the best opportunity to use the term “Beneficial pruning.”
THe trees are extremely old and in some cases Elms Trees, which are ferociously defended by the Parks Dept.
Some of the folks at NYCT Dept. of Buses contend that the doubledeckers have a system of avoiding low hanging branches – its called the steering wheel – but, of course, all it would take would be one bus taking out an antique Elm Tree on 5th Ave, and there would be arboreal hell to pay…
No problem: just install tree deflectors like they do on london buses.