Flyso
21st September 2001, 15:26
The follwing news story was issued today:
A new fleet of buses in Merseyside is too big to go through the Mersey
Tunnel. Arriva North West spent #7 million on 70 single decker DAF buses,
but they are too wide for the toll booths at the Liverpool to Birkenhead
tunnel. The mistake was only discovered when a driver first tried to
complete the route. He had to take his passengers on an eight-mile detour
because of the one-and-a-half inch discrepancy. Arriva told the Daily
Express the bus had only been used because another had broken down. "We've
plenty of buses narrow enough to get through," a spokesman said. Passenger
Dave Griffith of Heswall said: "The driver was very apologetic but we were
very late."
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
A new fleet of buses in Merseyside is too big to go through the Mersey
Tunnel. Arriva North West spent #7 million on 70 single decker DAF buses,
but they are too wide for the toll booths at the Liverpool to Birkenhead
tunnel. The mistake was only discovered when a driver first tried to
complete the route. He had to take his passengers on an eight-mile detour
because of the one-and-a-half inch discrepancy. Arriva told the Daily
Express the bus had only been used because another had broken down. "We've
plenty of buses narrow enough to get through," a spokesman said. Passenger
Dave Griffith of Heswall said: "The driver was very apologetic but we were
very late."
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: