{"id":1142,"date":"2006-09-16T02:06:29","date_gmt":"2006-09-16T06:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=1142"},"modified":"2006-09-16T02:06:29","modified_gmt":"2006-09-16T06:06:29","slug":"low-floor-buses-a-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2006\/09\/16\/low-floor-buses-a-bust\/","title":{"rendered":"Low floor buses a bust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/transit.toronto.on.ca\/images\/bus-8509-03.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Both Howard Moscoe and Chief General Manager Gary Webster say the new low-floor buses have been a failure due to their poor seating in the rear of the vehicle. <a href=\"http:\/\/torontosun.com\/News\/TorontoAndGTA\/2006\/09\/15\/1843205-sun.html\">Read about it<\/a> in the <em>Toronto Sun<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In its bid to squeeze as many seats as it could into the Orion 7 buses that lose some seating because of the low-floor, the TTC shoe-horned seats into the raised back of the bus.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re all jammed together so you can never get a comfortable seat unless your legs are two inches long,&#8221; TTC chairman Howard Moscoe said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s been a disaster,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We ordered 800 buses without fully knowing what the design would be.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Photo from <a href=\"http:\/\/transit.toronto.on.ca\/bus\/8509.shtml\">Transit Toronto<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both Howard Moscoe and Chief General Manager Gary Webster say the new low-floor buses have been a failure due to their poor seating in the rear of the vehicle. 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