On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 21:36:17 GMT, "Richard J."
wrote:

Petert wrote on 14 June 2009 22:24:35 ...
On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:26:42 +0100, Tom Barry
wrote:


Also that there's now consideration given to covering up the rear
platform at night. Where I come from that's called a 'door', Boris (the
real reason is probably to save staff costs at times when the bus is
lightly loaded - someone's probably drawn up a cost estimate for running
the bus with two crew on 24 hour routes, and it has rather too many
noughts at the end).

As someone from outside London who's knowledge of public transport
there is admittedly limited, can you explain why a borisbus would need
to be double crewed?

Because an open rear platform (à la Routemaster) has been specified as
an essential requirement. The conductor is needed, for safety reasons,
to supervise this. That's the official view anyway.

OK, thanks
--
Cheers

Peter