page_title: Double-decker bus
section_title: Portugal
hierarchical_section_title: Double-decker bus / Europe / Portugal
caption_attribution_description: English: MAN A39 in Porto, Portugal
context_page_description: A double-decker bus is a bus that has two storeys or decks. Double-decker buses are used for mass transport in the United Kingdom, Europe, Asia and many former European possessions, the most iconic example being the red London bus, namely the AEC Routemaster.
  Early double-deckers put the driver in a separate cab. Passenger access was via an open platform at the rear, and a bus conductor would collect fares. Modern double-deckers have a main entrance door at the front, and the driver takes fares, thus halving the number of bus workers aboard, but slowing the boarding process. The rear open platform, popular with passengers, was abandoned for safety reasons, as there was a risk of passengers falling when running and jumping onto the bus.
  Double-deckers are primarily for commuter transport but open-top models are used as sight-seeing buses for tourists. William Gladstone, speaking of London's double-deck horse-drawn omnibuses, once observed that "...the best way to see London is from the top of a bus".
context_section_description: Double-decker buses in Portugal were introduced during the 1950s when buses in general started to be driven in the main cities of the country, such as Lisbon, Porto, Coimbra and Setúbal. The type of buses were built by AEC (Regent) and later, vehicles produced by Daimler (Fleetline) and Leyland (Atlantean) with Portuguese bodywork or original. there was also one Leyland Olympian as a demonstrational bus for Lisbon. In Porto, there were double-decker trolleybuses, produced by Lancia and with Dalfa bodywork, putted in circulation in the middle 1960s until the middle 1990s. Double-decker buses were not a common vehicle for normal service, but for sightseeing purposes, most commonly Portuguese produced vehicles, including rebodies from regular service buses (for example, the Volvo B10R from Carristur), as well as ones from former companies, such as the MAN SD202 from BVG Berlin, many of them still in circulation.
  This situation with no double-decker buses on regular service lasted until 2011, when STCP acquired fifteen double-decker buses, with the model MAN A39 (same ones as in Berlin). They were presented as an event made by the company, named "Duplex Tour" at 26 February 2011 and put them into normal service on the 28th of the same month and year. These buses can be found normally on bus line 500.
caption: Double-deck bus in Porto, Portugal
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