The municipal operator of Berlin's city buses, BVG, has recently completed delivery of 200 British-built Alexander Dennis Enviro 500 double deckers. At 13.8m long they are an impressive sight and significant people mover in an area (most of continental Europe) that usually relies on articulated buses for the intermediary between rigid buses and trams.
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| Three sets of doors are ready for the 80 seated passengers. |
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| Customers boarding or alighting at the rear are aided by a second set of stairs at the very rear of the bus. |
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| The interior is relatively spartan but functional as a large scale people mover. |
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| Interior, again. |
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| Like all BVG vehicles there is excellent internal customer information displays. In this case it shows the wide variety of connections at Sudkreuz station by rail and road. |
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On several 'M' routes it appears that the Enviro 500s are interworking with articulated Scania Citywide buses.
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| Berlin does have a smart fleet of modern buses including vehicles from Mercedes-Benz, VDL and Solaris. However the one other type that particularly caught my eye was the battery electric Ebusco 2.2 shown here of which about a hundred are with BVG. |
