Operation of articulated buses in the North West

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RE: Arriva North West - St Helens Depot

(26/12/2015 23:50)Lynx Wrote:  With out going to off topic, bendys are only really need where it isn't practically possible to run a decker i.e places with low bridges. Bendys would do well on routes running out of Runcorn like the 79c and 82a that are busy services serving busy corridors but can't have deckers because of low bridges on the bus way, but although bendys could practically run on these routes they are not particularly suitable for most sections such as Hough Green and Grangeway estates which is the moral of the story for bendys throughout Merseyside and most of the UK hence why bendys have never really stuck around with Arriva here in Merseyside. Like SL64 JDZ has already pointed out, there would be no point in running bendys on routes where deckers could run with much improved seating capacity than bendys in most cases.

As far as i know there are no low bridges on the 82A because between runcorn depot and halton hospital there are no low bridges as i remember an old supervisor having a drive of an old back loader up to the hospital and back to the depot.