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Stacking humans vertically because the city refused to get any wider.
means A double decker is anything built with two levels stacked one atop the other, most famously a bus or sandwich with an upper and lower tier.
from Pure plain English compounding: "double" (from Latin duplus, "twofold," via Old French) plus "decker," from "deck" — originally a ship's covering floor, a word borrowed from Middle Dutch dec, "a covering or roof." So a "decker" is something with decks, and a double one has two. The term sailed off ships and onto buses and sandwiches, anywhere a second floor seemed like a good idea.
- london icon
- Routemaster buses ran for nearly 50 years
- tip-over myth
- Built to tilt 28 degrees without falling
- top deck
- Originally open-air, no roof, full weather
- rail too
- Some trains stack seats two stories high
- chocolate name
- A UK candy bar shares the title
routemaster london bus — iconic red double-decker that served london from 1956-2005, carrying 64-72 passengers per trip
tata double decker mumbai — yellow and black double-decker buses operating in mumbai since the 1970s, standard city transport
hong kong tram 1 — wooden double-decker streetcars running on hong kong island since 1904, oldest operating system