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Roberts, thinking aloud, yearns for double-decker buses

by Benjamin Kabak

Might New York City’s Fifth Ave. see a return of the days of double-decker buses? If New York City Transit President Howard Roberts gets his way, the answer could be yes. Opining on the state of the city’s buses yesterday, Roberts expressed a desire to bring the tall buses back to the city’s thoroughfares. While the buses are too tall for the Central Park transverses, they fit as many people as the double-length articulated buses and are cheaper to maintain. How positively British. [The New York Times]

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Harlan May 23, 2008 - 1:37 pm

Reducing crowding is good, but unless they can speed up the boarding/disembarking process on buses, those double-deckers are going to be painfully slow…!

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