how many people fit on a double decker bus?

Answer 1

well the one on the number ten route fits 48 upstairs and downstairs it depends on buggys and wheelchair users.

Answer 2

Double Decker Bus Capacity

Answer 3

i think 48 on upper deck, 18 on lower seated. 12 standing, so technically only around 78? but really loads more can fit on though not comfortably. i think back to the school bus, that was a double decker. now at that time kids would pile onto the bus i have no idea how many of us were on it at a time, but there were only 3 buses to school so we all had to get on.
also another factor is the size of the people you wanna get on a double decker; obviously you will fit fewer heffers on a bus than skinny midgets. also im assuming that you want to know how many living people you can get on a bus. if they were all dead you could cram loads of them in there and not recieve a single complaint from the passengers. i think that covers most of it for now. but i thinnk the real answer is a bout 72-78 living average people on a double decker.

Answer 4

From your previous questions and answers I'm guessing you're in the UK.

A tropical double decker over here seats 70 something people, different types of bus vary. Fairly normal would be 43 on the upperdeck and 33 on the lower deck. There's usually space for about 20 standing on the lower deck (no standing on upper deck).

It the bus is full then almost 100 people. It will say on the bus (usually on the stairwell) what the seating and standing capacity is.

Answer 5

Depends when you're talking about.

Early open top double deckers (horse drawn & petrol) had a capacity of about 34. 18 outside/ 16 in.

By the 1930's a typical 26ft (8.2m) deisel half-cab was top covered and sat 56, 30 on top/ 26 downstairs, with generally five standing passengers allowed (bottom deck only).

By 1956 legal max length had increased to 9.5m (30 ft), this together with rear-engines allowed 78 seats (45/33) by then the normal allowed standing figure was eight.

By 1968 lengths were normally up to 10m (33ft), so seated capacity rose to as many as 86 split 49/37 or 51/35, up to 20 standing passengers and a crew of one rather than two although many operators stayed with 9.5m buses seating 70-78, although Nottingham fitted as many as 80 seats at that length.

The recent requirement for wheelchair access has seen length and weights rise and seating capacity (particularly in the lower deck) drop, early dual door London examples had as few as nineteen seats on the bottom deck and were 69 seaters but were as long as 86-seat step-entry buses of a few years previously.

The longest UK double decks are the Neoplan Coaches used by Stagecoach on Megabus, they are 13.5m long and seat 81 in coach seats.

The highest seating capacity on a bus in regular service is 95 on the ten 12m VT-class Volvo B7LT/ East Lancs used by First Glasgow. These have space for one wheelchair and 10 standing passengers as well as air conditioning.

For schools transport a 3+2 seating layout has become commonplace in recent years, by applying this to a 12m three-axle double decker East Lancs have sold a number of B7LT and B9LT double deckers with over a hundred seats, 63/39 being a typical split, all seats belted and no-one standing.

In the step-entry era Stagecoach had a 110-seat Leyland Olympian (H66/44F) F110 NES and Hong Kong operators claimed crush(!) loads of up to 200 on similar vehicles in the 1980s.

In comparison the highest capacity in a double deck tram was the Swansea & Mumbles line in 1928, each of their Brush double deckers sat 106, and they normally worked in multiples of two, 212 seats plus standing(!).

Maximum length for a rigid bus in the UK is now 15m, but to carry a decent load at this length would require 4 axles. Only Neoplan have built four-axle rigid double decks, and all of these have been left hand drive.

Answer 6

If it's open top, the sky is the limit. You could pack that thing so tight that one person's arm is another person's lunch.

1000? 1763? You tell me.

There are 72 seats on a standard double decker bus - 73 if you count the driver.

Answer 7

It is 72 fluffy is right

Answer 8

42 or summat like that

Answer 9

about 72 i think lol

Answer 10

depends how finely you slice em!