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One odd thing I've noticed about the Gillig low floors (as compared to the New Flyer low floors): As a passenger sitting ahead of the rear door, the bottom of the side windows is at a typical adult passenger's chin height. You feel like you've shrunk in size. But, in the stepped up rear of the bus, the seats have a comfortable height compared to the side windows.
New Flyer designed their bus side windows with two heights that matched up to the two passenger seat heights. Gillig went with a one-size-fits-all window height.(Probably a cheaper design for manufacturing, but less enjoyable as a rider.)
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I hate those seats, they are really uncomfortable, Vancouvers SkyTrain uses them.
One odd thing I've noticed about the Gillig low floors (as compared to the New Flyer low floors): As a passenger sitting ahead of the rear door, the bottom of the side windows is at a typical adult passenger's chin height. You feel like you've shrunk in size. But, in the stepped up rear of the bus, the seats have a comfortable height compared to the side windows.
New Flyer designed their bus side windows with two heights that matched up to the two passenger seat heights. Gillig went with a one-size-fits-all window height.(Probably a cheaper design for manufacturing, but less enjoyable as a rider.)
According to the buget, there is only 30 busses per year fortcasted, where did the extra pork come from?
HB
What about low-floor 30ft busses??? Neil told me NO to my face
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