Optare Metrodecker

[andrew1991]

http://www.busandcoachbuyer.com/optare-metrodecker-launch/

According to this article the metrodecker could also have quick release windows.

[Bob]

Gotta be said voiths sound great in B10ble's, B10L's metrobuses etc but sound rotten in sb200's and streetlites. .maybe they don't combine well with underpowered buses?

[CL]

What kind of rear excuse is this? They might as well have not have had a rear window at ALL. Also, why is (what i'm assuming is the space for) the destination display so huge???

[andrew1991]

What kind of rear excuse is this? They might as well have not have had a rear window at ALL. Also, why is (what i'm assuming is the space for) the destination display so huge???

It's not, the destination display is the box next to the window. No idea what the top part is.

[Bob]

Its almost as ugly as a streetlite lol

[winston]

What kind of rear excuse is this? They might as well have not have had a rear window at ALL. Also, why is (what i'm assuming is the space for) the destination display so huge???

It's not, the destination display is the box next to the window. No idea what the top part is.

Isn't it a grille for the ventilation system /air-con as per NXWM 4768 below?

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5536/12639788324_9f743e4191.jpg

[andrew1991]

What kind of rear excuse is this? They might as well have not have had a rear window at ALL. Also, why is (what i'm assuming is the space for) the destination display so huge???

It's not, the destination display is the box next to the window. No idea what the top part is.

Isn't it a grille for the ventilation system /air-con as per NXWM 4768 below?

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5536/12639788324_9f743e4191.jpg

More than likely now you've said that

[winston]

Optare has won its first order for the Metrodecker from Reading Buses (Route 702):
http://www.optare.com/news/2018/6/15/first-ever-optare-metrodecker-order-confirmed-for-reading-buses

[Steveminor]

Wow it's been so long I though Optare had given up on it.

[winston]

Wow it's been so long I though Optare had given up on it.

They're not being delivered for another year (June 2019), I'm wondering whether the current demo's have been development / pre-production vehicles?

[winston]

According to LOTS (news section), Optare have won a further Metrodecker order from Metroline for 31 x Metrodecker EV's

http://www.lots.org.uk/

[Steveminor]

You wait ages to sell a bus then 36 turn up all at once lol