I just dreamt that I was at Orchard Road and Scotts Road
intersection, and I saw SMRT double decks around. Don't know which
model. And I also saw a Scania N113CRB on svc 14, and it is
wheelchair accessible as I saw the logo in front!!!
And guess what? When you board the bus, you go up the steps as
usual. Then towards the middle , you go down the steps again. On
the left is one for the wheelchair and on the right is the exit
door. Then you have to go up the steps again as you walk to the
rear.
So the low floor portion is only at the middle facilitating
wheelchair bound people. The front and back are high floor!!
o_O
Freaky... you remind me of a dream I once had. I was at some
random bus station (Bukit Merah? Woodlands?), and there was this
one converted air-conditioning Mercedes MB O405 MKI bus (the SBS
Transit ones) that - somehow - has been converted into a
low-entry/low floor bus, and refitted with a plug door at it's exit
(though they still looked the same as the ones we know today)! The
front door was open and I could see a bit into the interior of the
bus - very spacious (because there were no visible seats - prophecy
of the Scania K230UBs?!), and the walls and floor are finished with
a rough pinkish material (think the original floors of SMRT's
Mercedes MB O405, only in the same pink as the lower deck celling
boards of the Dennis Tridents). Weird thing is, the whole exterior
of the bus looked exactly the same as a normal SBS Transit CAC MB
O405 bus - complete with the original rounded windows, door panels,
and such!
Anyway, in other countries there are high-floor buses
that are wheelchair-accessible without resorting to the kind of
configuration you dreamed about (that could have been dangerous!).
Rather, there's some sort of elevator at the door, which the
wheelchair-confined person could use to get on and off the bus.
Video of a U.S. bus with such an elevator in action.
Do you dream of buses every night?
I dream of weird random things every night - from ghosts to
futuristic cities to buses to Pokémon to Sonic games to internet to
IRC chat rooms to... erm... nevermind.
/me hides