at 05:44:08 on Sat, 17 Mar 2012, Mizter T remarked:
Not that I saw in Gateshead last weekend. Pretty well as in London except
for the repaint.

But one must board via the front door.

Same in Nottingham, and I'm sure that in common with other provincial
cites I've seen bendies (like Leicester), outside London people queue at
bus stops and get on at the front door, with the driver pulling up at
the head of the queue. The queues form "upstream" of that (not
downstream) so there's no-one hanging around near the back of the bus
anyway.
--
Roland Perry