E-MAIL
In an official ceremony at the Bus Forum of the MAN Nutzfahrzeuge Gruppe, the 400th MAN Lion"s City DD double-decker bus was recently handed over to the Berlin public transport company (Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe). The new MAN Lion’s City DD has space for a total of 128 passengers: 83 seats and standing room for 45. Berlin"s organisations for disabled people were consulted with the result that all the vehicles are equipped to carry physically challenged passengers.
MAN double decker bus
MAN and the BVG have a long history of co-operation. The Büssing company, the forerunner of MAN, delivered its first double-decker bus - on the pattern of the London bus - to Berlin as far back as 1907. It had space for 42 passengers: 19 seats on the lower deck, 20 on the upper deck and and standing room for three passengers on the rear platform. In a metropolis like Berlin where the space available for stationary traffic is at a premium, the double-decker buses prove day in day out that no other passenger road transport concept can conceivably be more efficient. It is hard to imagine the streets of Berlin without this bus concept for public local transport. It provides the maximum transport volume but requires only a minimum of traffic space.
Since last autumn all the Berlin MAN Lion"s City DD buses equipped with EEV-compliant engines have carried the official "Blue Angel" environmental seal for "low-noise and low-pollutant municipal vehicles and buses".
The buses meet the voluntary EEV exhaust-gas standard, currently the most stringent of the European emission standards for buses and trucks.