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Guinness - 15/2/08 at 07:19 PM

I need to find out if there is a British Standard for Bus Turning Circles

Basically, I have a long, single carriageway road with a patch of hard standing at the end of it. The single decker bus turns round on there at the minute, but it's turning very muddy and rutted.

So what is the turning circle of your average bus, and what do they weigh?

Cheers

Mike

matt_claydon - 15/2/08 at 07:24 PM

Buses have to pass a VOSA test (similar to SVA) called COIF (Certificate of Initial Fitness). Turning circle is part of it.

Regulation 13 of the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986 requires a bus to manoeuvre in the area between two concentric circles of 5.3 metre and 12.5 metre diameters, so that no part of it projects outside that area.

Guinness - 15/2/08 at 07:30 PM

Magic! Thanks Mat.

Just wasted an hour googling for that!

Cheers

Mike

britishtrident - 15/2/08 at 07:58 PM

quote:
Originally posted by matt_claydon
Buses have to pass a VOSA test (similar to SVA) called COIF (Certificate of Initial Fitness). Turning circle is part of it.

Regulation 13 of the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986 requires a bus to manoeuvre in the area between two concentric circles of 5.3 metre and 12.5 metre diameters, so that no part of it projects outside that area.



I bet not many stretched Limos could turn in that --- more like 20 metres between kerbs.

speedyxjs - 15/2/08 at 08:02 PM

My tintop does it in 12 metres

tom windmill - 15/2/08 at 11:14 PM

Have a word with Graham (Jacko) on this site, he builds the things i guess he might have some idea
Cheers Tom

Macbeast - 16/2/08 at 08:09 AM

I bet sodding Livingstone's sodding bendy sodding buses couldn't do that

Macbeast - 17/2/08 at 02:19 PM

Just checked (how sad am I ? ) A bendy bus is 18m long so it wouldn't conform to the regs even if you mounted it on a turntable.

Wonder if Red Ken knows that ?

And if he did, would he give a monkey's ?