{"id":110,"date":"2007-09-06T22:59:30","date_gmt":"2007-09-06T21:59:30","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-09-06T22:59:30","modified_gmt":"2007-09-06T21:59:30","slug":"new-double-decker-coaches-for-megabus-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/?p=110","title":{"rendered":"New double decker coaches for Megabus US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00b7 Budget coach service takes delivery of 17 wheelchair-accessible vehicles<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 New 79-passenger coaches raise quality of expanding low-cost network<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Online booking engine welcomes 500,000th United States customer<\/p>\n<p>Stagecoach Group is investing $10 million in America\u2019s first inter-city double-decker coaches.<\/p>\n<p>The first of the fleet of 17 new closed-top double-deckers is being introduced tomorrow (7 September 2007) at the Group\u2019s expanding budget inter-city coach operation megabus.com in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Double-decker coaches are in regular service in the UK and elsewhere in Europe, but these are the first on inter-city services in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Manufactured by the Belgium-based company Van Hool, the new wheelchair- accessible vehicles have been produced to meet US specifications.<\/p>\n<p>The 79-passenger state-of-the-art coaches will run on megabus.com Midwest routes operated out of Chicago, with all vehicles in service by January 2008. <\/p>\n<p>The full press release is <a href=\"http:\/\/megabus.com\/us\/press_releases.php?pid=11\" title=\"here\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>PS (7 Sept).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve found a picture of one!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/images\/uploads\/vanhoolmegabus.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" name=\"image\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00b7 Budget coach service takes delivery of 17 wheelchair-accessible vehicles \u00b7 New 79-passenger coaches raise quality of expanding low-cost network \u00b7 Online booking engine welcomes 500,000th United States customer Stagecoach Group is investing $10 million in America\u2019s first inter-city double-decker coaches. The first of the fleet of 17 new closed-top double-deckers is being introduced tomorrow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}