COMFORT AND RATTLES

Now this is an interesting debate, are today's modern Buses as good as we are led to believe, for a long time manufacturers haven't put the passenger at the forefront of there thinking, however that is beginning to change, the step up from the ADL Enviro 200 is the new MMC, version which should iron out a lot of the problems that the current model, don't get me wrong i'm not blaming the bus companies for this, in this climate where passenger levels are going down and the concessionary fares are biting at the operators, they have to buy the most economical bus there is, hence Ipswich Buses buying 4 more ADL E200's, now when i went on one it rattled considerably and this was one of the new ones as seen above by 103 SN16 OGJ, don't get me wrong any investment in new Buses is thoroughly welcomed and most of IB's fleet is pretty good in that terms as is First Ipswich's fleet, and road conditions also play a fair part in how a bus performs, the roads around the Town Centre are pretty bad. Buses of yesteryear while many view that time with affection, many did vibrate or rattle particularly the RE or the VR, BUT they were comfortable have operators and manufactures forgotten to pad the seats we ride on.

Seen here in the late 1980's is a particularly scruffy Eastern Counties Bristol VR 258 RAH 258W, in those days the Felixstowe bus terminated at the Railway Station.