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low-floor en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. Of buses, trams or trains, built with a floor closer to ground level to ease access for passengers.
    • To date, only Stadler has brought low-floor trains to Britain, while the major rolling stock makers - Bombardier, Alstom, Siemens and Hitachi - seem wedded to trains with high floors that force passengers in wheelchairs to ask for help to board and alight trains. 2020 November 4, Philip Haigh, “Easy to maintain, easy to use, but how easy to implement?”, in Rail, page 33: