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Edmund Gin <egin@unixg.ubc.ca> wrote:

>1) I don't feel safe sitting in the bus.

Are these buses lighter than the "normal" ones? I notice when they
accelerate from a stop, they seemingly go much quicker.
>
>2) There is no leg room for those of us with long legs.  I've sat in many 
>of the seats, and the only ones with enough leg room for me are the ones 
>facing towards the centerline of the bus (in which case, I'll obstruct 
>traffic moving to the back) or the seats at the very back of the bus.  In 
>fact, my femur is just long enough that if I am sitting on a 
>"forward-facing" seat, it reaches from the back of my seat to the back of 
>the seat preceding mine.

I agree completely. These buses were designed by idiots. The seating
reminds me of fast food restaurants where the seats are purposely designed
to be uncomfortable so people don't sit there forever. The bus seats are
VERY uncomfortable, and I'm only 6'2". On the older buses, I can nestle
into the back seat or lean up against a window while reading. You can't do
this on hardly any forward-facing seats in the new ones because the leg
room is almost nonexistent. The seat right behind the rear door is
especially dumb ... there is some thing on the floor beside the wall which
looks like the well around a tire (it isn't, that is farther back). I like
the emergency mechanism to open the rear doors -- it is located up near the
ceiling and behind a partition!!

Are these buses intentionally designed for "short people"? The new Skytrain
cars also have seats with very little leg room between the doors and the
ends of the cars.

>4) There is an irritatingly long delay in the mechanism for opening the 
>rear doors.  The sign on the back doors state "Push to open", but when it 
>takes a second or two for the door to open, it makes people wonder if 
>they've pushed it hard enough or not; this means that people may attempt 
>again, with more force.

They should put signs which give instructions in a couple of dozen
languages, that might help as well (especially English).


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