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Deluxe Vehicle 2022-04-20 08:20:05 | #4
Until last year, there were such buses imported from Stockholm in my hometown. They were shabby, noisy, and blue smoke came from their exhausts.
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Tasty 2022-04-29 19:17:35 | #5
Not about OmniLink but sister-model OmniLink.
In 2001, my city (Aarhus, DK) decided it was time to jump on the low-floor bandwagon for the fleet of city buses. Up to tht point they had been using Volvos for many years, but Volvo didn't offer any true low-floor buses, only low-entry, so a change had to be made.
It was decided to buy 20 Scania OmniLink 2-axle. It didn't go very well, to put it mildly: the capacity was a LOT lower than that of the Volvo and due to the low floor, the interior was full of huge humps and bumps everywhere (to make room for stuff under the floor), the seats were at different heights, facing in all directions and some of them almost required mountain-climbing skills to reach. The wheel wells were so wide, that it was very difficult for two passengers to pass each other. As if all that wasn't bad enough, all the interiour roof hatches had serious problems staying shut and rattled and squeaked like crazy when driving.
According to the drivers, they were truly great to drive, but the capacity was so limited that they proved completely unusable during rush hour, and even on most standard lines at any time of the day, so they were soon relegated to very small routes and rural lines.
For a few years, one of these buses (fleet #109, reg. RZ97778) was my daily transport when going home from work.
The company never bought any more of these buses, and they were all prematurely retired in 2011. "My" bus, #109, was sold on to Estonian company TAK of Tallinn, registered on plates 420 TAK as fleet number 3420. It was destroyed in a garage fire there in 2013
In 2001, my city (Aarhus, DK) decided it was time to jump on the low-floor bandwagon for the fleet of city buses. Up to tht point they had been using Volvos for many years, but Volvo didn't offer any true low-floor buses, only low-entry, so a change had to be made.
It was decided to buy 20 Scania OmniLink 2-axle. It didn't go very well, to put it mildly: the capacity was a LOT lower than that of the Volvo and due to the low floor, the interior was full of huge humps and bumps everywhere (to make room for stuff under the floor), the seats were at different heights, facing in all directions and some of them almost required mountain-climbing skills to reach. The wheel wells were so wide, that it was very difficult for two passengers to pass each other. As if all that wasn't bad enough, all the interiour roof hatches had serious problems staying shut and rattled and squeaked like crazy when driving.
According to the drivers, they were truly great to drive, but the capacity was so limited that they proved completely unusable during rush hour, and even on most standard lines at any time of the day, so they were soon relegated to very small routes and rural lines.
For a few years, one of these buses (fleet #109, reg. RZ97778) was my daily transport when going home from work.
The company never bought any more of these buses, and they were all prematurely retired in 2011. "My" bus, #109, was sold on to Estonian company TAK of Tallinn, registered on plates 420 TAK as fleet number 3420. It was destroyed in a garage fire there in 2013
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