Boris Wants to Scrap Bendy Buses in Favour of a "Modern Routemaster"

That confirms my suspicion that they were dodgy, then.

Are you voting for Boris just cause he's a Tory? Or is it cause he forgot to vote about Crossrail, wants minimal amounts of affordable housing for London, wants to withdraw from the Kyoto agreement, is being used as a figurehead because he has mild 'celebrity' status (see Republicans using Arnie to win power), calls black people 'piccaninnies' and has had little involvement in London before this campaign.

Er yes I am voting because all of the above.

Er yes I am voting because all of the above.

Come on, April 1st was yesterday!

You won't be joining us then?

No i will be in a glass case of emotion.

Rest assured, we'll all be feeling very emotional...

Big surprise in the news the other day, the headline screamed:

**"Cameron Backs Boris"

**Oh you thunk?
Bendybuses and most of the shit Bogus comes out with are a distraction.
I believe he is the wrecker candidate, I think any improvements we have seen in London in the past few years would be rolled back.

I think any improvements we have seen in London in the past few years would be rolled back.

That's the feeling I get as well from what he says. To remove articulated buses would be a chronic waste of money, yet I reckon he'd do it :-/

Inscription on Thatcher's grave should simply read:
"Dancing Permitted"

Back on topic, what's the big problem with bendy buses?

Back on topic, what's the big problem with bendy buses?

They're bendy and I don't like 'em!

Boris, should scrap bendy busses and promote track bikes... to get all those city tubbies fitter..

I reckon this thread needs a thread title change to 'Sadiq no longer wants to invest in new "Modern Routemasters" in favour of emission-controlled conventional buses'. :)

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/sadiq-khan-axes-new-routemasters-on-london-streets-in-costcutting-drive-a3430836.html

bit of a shame really I think those new routemasters are great. I saw a bendy bus recently slithering around the airport in Stockholm, maybe thats where they went to live out their days?

His dad doesn't like driving the new Routemasters

A lot of the bendy busses went to Malta, where they got stuck and caught fire.

The 'New Routemaster' is much nicer than the bendy buses it replaced. Both of them had issues with cooling in the summer (i.e. it was frequently non-existent), but at least on the new routemaster you can get a seat while you bake - instead of baking upright for an hour in cattle truck conditions on the bendy.

It's a shame the open platform is barely used but at least they designed it in. Conductors are just an anomaly in a cashless system though.

I can also understand why it makes financial sense to use off the peg designs for future buses.

Overall it was a nice idea though and I'm glad it happened.

The New Routemasters are hotter than the sun when temperatures get about 27 degrees outside, minimal AC and no windows is a terrible combination.

I think the second batch either had opening windows or better AC. Some of them are pretty warm though.

I quite like the look of them and some of the bad publicity was down to some fairly dubious agenda-driven journalism (allocating all of the R&D costs to the first batch of busses to hugely inflate the cost and then not reflecting that when reporting on the prices of subsequent orders was a favourite trick). A shame the platform at the back has gone though, being able to hop on and off again was great.

Did the design ever get licensed out anywhere? I know that was the plan but nothing seems to have been mentioned so I assume not.

Giving a whole new meaning to the term 'hop on, hop off':

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/hundreds-of-london-routemaster-buses-recalled-after-fault-causes-rear-doors-open-midjourney-a3453786.html