Mal Rowe wrote:

> It seems to me that we have a problem of definition here - and that the formal definitions suggested by Tony P are just as prone to mis-undestanding as most 'short cuts' in terminology.


Wellington's trolley buses are not just "low entry." They are low-floor from entrance to exit for goodness sake. My photos taken only today prove this.

Yes in Prague and Warsaw (and even in Budapest and other places I have visited) you can enter and leave a bus by any door. In NZ (and from observation Australia) you get on at the front and leave by the rear or centre door. You CANNOT legally board a NZ bus via the rear door so even by that legalistic definition these buses are low entrance, low exit and low everything in between.

In NZ, which has not been run on Eastern European lines since July 14 1984, these vehicles are defined as low-floor buses by the makers, by the operators, by the regional councils that authorise them, and by the passengers. Nobody here cares what they are called in Gdansk.

Nie wieder.

dmcl the wellington idiot