In my opinion, I feel that it is the decision of the
LTA to order new units of the MAN Double Decker bus. This is so that the MAN Double Decker forms the majority of – or sole model
of – the high capacity buses in at least one GCM package, since anyway there are already some
MAN Double Decker buses. The number of units
should be around 190 units, or 380, 570, 760, 950, 1140…. a number
that is able to divide equally, so that the MAN Double Decker is the only (or majority of the) high
capacity bus model(s) in the GCM package(s)
where this model of high capacity buses are deployed to.
Whereas for the forty units of MAN
Articulated Buses, I guess the LTA may absorb
them and use them until they reach the maximum of their lifespan,
before it replaces them with future new models of Double Decker
buses. As there are only forty units, if absorbed and deployed, it
is probably going to be in a GCM package with
only two to four feeder bus routes.