Low floor buses

[towerman]

When is the date for all buses to be low floor?Stagecoach still have quite a few step entrance Olympians in Northamptonshire

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May 31, 2013 15:43:14 GMT towerman said:

When is the date for all buses to be low floor?Stagecoach still have quite a few step entrance Olympians in Northamptonshire

1st Jan 2015 - Single deckers under 7.5 tonnes
1st Jan 2016 - Single deckers over 7.5 tonnes
1st Jan 2017 - Double deckers
1st Jan 2020 - Coaches

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May 31, 2013 16:20:00 GMT @mredd said:

May 31, 2013 15:43:14 GMT towerman said:

When is the date for all buses to be low floor?Stagecoach still have quite a few step entrance Olympians in Northamptonshire

1st Jan 2015 - Single deckers under 7.5 tonnes
1st Jan 2016 - Single deckers over 7.5 tonnes
1st Jan 2017 - Double deckers
1st Jan 2020 - Coaches

how can coaches be Low floor? it needs storage for luggage.

[romfordbuses]

May 31, 2013 20:21:34 GMT @freebbc said:

how can coaches be Low floor? it needs storage for luggage.

It's more that they have to be wheelchair accessible. It would be very hard to have a low floor coach because as you said - Storage and mainly because of the chassis Coaches use.

[DLA 365]

May 31, 2013 20:21:34 GMT @freebbc said:

May 31, 2013 16:20:00 GMT @mredd said:

1st Jan 2015 - Single deckers under 7.5 tonnes
1st Jan 2016 - Single deckers over 7.5 tonnes
1st Jan 2017 - Double deckers
1st Jan 2020 - Coaches

how can coaches be Low floor? it needs storage for luggage.

In the case of coaches, most of the modern ones usually have a wheelchair lift.

The dates are not necessarily for making all buses low floor, but for making buses DDA compliant.

I assume non DDA compliant low floor buses (say a low floor but no ramp or wheelchair space) would need to be withdrawn as well?

[towerman]

Thanks for the info & yes coaches have wheelchair lifts the X5 Stagecoach's route between Oxford & Cambridge has them fleet numbers 53601 to 53617.