Do you have double decker buses like England does?

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1. I guess rhatathe point. Electric trolley buses > then double deckers cist-wise, Also they dont fit more inside at all. Google tells me a “red routemaster” doubledecker has appr. 72 seats and standing is not allowed, our trolley buses in zurich for example have 60 seats and 48 people can stand in it, which means over 100 people fit in

2. On some cross-country lines in some seasons, we have double-decked post coach buses. This was wnird to write out because I don’t know how I can call it in English.

   The post company owns a network of bus lines that connect rural and mountaineous areas with places with train stations. So when Swiss people say “post bus”, it’s always implied that it’s such a rural line. Some of them go quite far, actually. Like St. Moritz – Bellinzona. And during summer, some of them are double decked.

3. Vienna doesn’t have trolley buses unless you count the little electric ones in the 1st district that recharge off the overheads.

   We don’t have double decker buses either, but there double decker trains on the lines going to Wiener Neustadt and Krems.

4. No regular busses, only coaches are sometimes double decked. In major cities you will find articulated busses. Trolleybussen are not very common. Only in the city of Arnhem you will find those.

5. [Berlin](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ec/Betriebshaltestelle_Hertzallee_-_BVG_bus_line_X34.JPG) does. Although there are less and less of them. Around 200 new ones have been ordered from Alexander Dennis, but there used to be more than 1k on the streets approximately ten years ago.

6. To answer your second question, the reason is probably the same as why most underground networks don’t have double-decker trains. Double-decker buses are tall things, and [bridges often aren’t](https://youtu.be/xJ3SNzO6yEE).

   To answer your first one, I know Berlin has them.

7. We have few, but they are for long routes (like for tours) and only some companies use them, I doubt there is a public transit line where they are used.

   But we have a lot of trolleybuses for in-city public transport (and some cities trams, I miss trams in Pilsen since i moved elsewhere with only buses, electrobuses and trolleybuses).

8. Only a few long-distance buses. Also, Ireland has double-deckers.

9. Yes, double decker busses are very common and used all over Sweden. But not as common a single deckers though.

   All/Most of them are used on intercity routes, between cities.

   Gallery: [Scania Region](https://bildix.mmcloud.se/bildix/api/images/0ca26aad-f15f-4863-a33f-c2dce121579e.jpeg?fit=crop&w=980&h=551), [Kronoberg Region](https://phbuss.1g.fi/gallery/G/Grimsl%C3%B6vsbuss/Grimslovsbuss_TLW070_Norra_jarnvagsgatan_Vaxjo_1205_2014.jpg?img=img2048), [Värmland Region](https://imengine.public.nwt.infomaker.io/?uuid=12f908e1-a3ff-548d-940a-67a6f12fd3ec&function=cropresize&type=preview&source=false&q=75&crop_w=0.99999&crop_h=0.99999&x=1.0E-5&y=1.0E-5&width=1200&height=800), [Västmanland Region](https://imengine.gota.infomaker.io/?uuid=aa2efd17-77e5-5465-af97-39ffb4e7c653&width=768&height=384&type=preview&source=false&q=90&z=100&x=0.000&y=0.130&crop_w=1.000&crop_h=0.741&function=cropresize), [Norrland Region](https://www.raan.nu/imgext/a3a568a4-66e1-469c-b714-50213ac336c9.JPG)

   Only one route in Sweden use trolleybuses; Route 3 in Landskrona. Trams are far more common, but still only used in 3 cities.

10. Not that common. One company called Onnibus uses them (coaches) in long haul routes.

11. Yes, two cities in Germany use this kind of bus on regular lines. The capital Berlin and Aalen, a small city in Baden-Württemberg. Half of Aalens city buses are double deckers and this type of bus was first used in 1966.

12. > It fits more people on the bus.

    The same is true for articulated buses. Double deckers have the disadvantage of taking longer to board/deboard. They tend to be more comfortable though. They make the most sense when most passengers are going to board/deboard at the same stop.

    Berlin has regular buses, double deckers, and articulated buses.

13. There’s a few double deckers buses used for long distance travel, but not for urban travel. There’s a few tourist buses where you can sit on the top, I think, at least in Paris, I dunno for other cities.

14. Nope, not for public transport. However, in the last few years two tourist bus companies started in Vienna and they have double decker busses. Afaik with a detachable rooftop…

    The drive a particular route covering the most important sites and you can hop on and off as you please.

    One of them is [Big Bus Tours](https://www.bigbustours.com/en/vienna/vienna-bus-tours)

15. In Italy double decker busses haven’t been used for urban and suburban public transport since the 1970s.

    Different situation for the coaches and intercity busses operated by private companies that often are double deckers, but these operate only on “fixed” intercity routes or for touristic travels.

16. We have a few in bigger cities but that’s only tourists buses that go around the main monuments.

    Some travel buses also have are double-deck but that’s not the norm.

17. Ireland does too. Standard public bus type in Dublin

18. Yes. Only 1 bus goes through my village and even during rush hour it’s rare that they run a double decker and it’s so irritating

19. Yeah, our standard urban busses are basically the same as the UK – double decker. They have been like that since the invention of the double-decker bus.

    A lot of them are built by WrightBus in Northern Ireland – also now come in hybrid, electric and hydrogen versions btw.

20. There are some red double-decker buses here in Bergen. They are for sightseeing.

21. Yes, but they are quite rare and usually used only for very long distances(hundreds of km).

22. Flixbus has some double decker buses but for city transport everything is single story. Some bus rentals for field trips do offer double deckers as a way to move more people with one driver.

    We also have 2 story train coaches in the Netherlands.

23. We did, [40 years ago](https://www.google.com/search?q=bipiano+aerfer&tbm=isch) or so. For some reason they never became popular and were quickly replaced by articulated ones as required. I think that one reason was the longer dwelling time because of the increased capacity with a small footprint that didn’t allow to have enough doors. An articulated bus has the same capacity (or even more) and could have more doors thus allowing for shorter dwelling times, especially important in narrow streets where a stopped bus cannot be overtaken.

    Edit — The above is true for urban transit, long-distance services by private companies may make use of some double-deckers but they are still somewhat rare.

24. Luxembourg has an old London double decker kno king about for events

    But, aside from that, only the hop-on, hop-off tourist, open-top buses.

    We do have double-decker trains though…

25. never seen one in Poland

    They are a thing in Ireland (whole island)

    On a note of public transport, i have not see [these](https://brykacz.com.pl/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Solaris_Urbino_18_8-1024×683.jpg) in Ireland yet

26. Ireland does but not in every county. They are mainly in the cities eg Dublin, Cork, Kilkenny, Waterford. Most Dublin buses are double decker but in the other cities it’s just really busy routes that they would have them!

27. >It fits more people on the bus

    quick google tells me a typical red London double-decker bus, seats between 60 and 80 passengers. The default bus in Prague has capacity of 161 people and we can show you there is always room for twenty more. It also have five doors which makes everything faster.