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Just upgrading to newer busses would probably help. Most of my local bus company's (First) fleet are S reg, so 16 years old.
by lucaspiller 12y ago
Just upgrading to newer busses would probably help. Most of my local bus company's (First) fleet are S reg, so 16 years old.
- NickPollard 12y agoIt probably would help, but is also more expensive, and I would expect the bus companies to be quite careful planning their upgrade cycles and end-of-lifing for buses.
- mkohlmyr 12y agoAs a personal anecdote I can say that the last few times my home town have upgraded (or attempted to) their fleets of buses and light rail they have quite consistently ended up buying vehicles that cant cope with the harsher winter conditions (I believe the manufacturers were in southern Europe in both cases) and break down. Add incompetence of local politicians and the far higher cost of renewing together and upgrading existing fleets is probably often a better move. Obviously it isn't an extreme long term solution though.
- astrodust 12y agoMost companies run these things into the ground. 16 years for a bus is like 2 years for a car.
- gsnedders 12y agoAnd while they often disappear from major cities after about 15 years, they just get handed down to more rural routes where they'll keep going till they die.