london's new bus

The mayor of London recently unveiled the design of a new bus for London, in time for the 2012 Olympic Games. It caught my attention as I did a little project in redesigning the layout of our buses.

From the look of it, the new design resembles the good old Routemaster double-decker bus, with a platform at the rear for hop-on, 3 doors and 2 staircases leading to the upper deck. I've seen the 2 staircase layout on Hong Kong's Tram and it seems to facilitate moving between the 2 decks (of course you sacrifice on capacity). I wonder how will the passengers' flow be like on the new London bus.

Too much a twist of old and new, I still prefer the current Olympiad family of double-decker.