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New Baghdad Double Deckers confirm a role for the type in global city transport

13 July 2012
One of Baghdad’s new Elba House Jordanian-built double deckers and the Yutong Chinese built model in Skopje.
One of Baghdad’s new Elba House Jordanian-built double deckers and the Yutong Chinese built model in Skopje.

 

The double decker is the bus design that refuses to die. By rights, it shouldn’t exist, given that it involves passengers walking up and down steep staircases on a moving vehicle, while passengers upstairs can get up to all kinds of mischief out of sight of the only member of staff on the bus. The amount of space accessible to people who can’t use stairs is small, especially on eccentric multi-door, multi-staircase, projects like the New Bus for London. The European Bus System of...

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