The question is often posed whether, instead of having the double-decker bus, which is too expensive, we could have the single-decker which takes a less number of people.
It may not be commercially viable for a single-decker bus with 30 seats to trundle around a country lane, but using a smaller vehicle could make the route viable.
Yet, according to the report in which he played some part, the tunnel size limitation would not permit anything larger than a single-decker bus to get through.
They can move more flexibly through the traffic and can often negotiate roads down which a double-decker, or even a large single-decker, could not be driven.
They complained, broadly, that the price paid for a requisitioned 32-seater, single-decker bus was just about twice what it ought to be.
The relief brought to them is very substantial, but for the operators of single-decker small-seater buses the relief is proportionately far less.
All too often, we have empty single-decker large buses rumbling around country lanes.
A recent example in my constituency concerned a bus operator who carried 81 children to school on a single-decker.
