EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

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christianSpaceman in reply to @Oliver Schick

I always liked Routemasters, too, but by the time Johnson took office the time for a policy he nicked out of Livingstone's 2000 programme had well and truly passed. Livingstone didn't deliver on it

Is that true? My memory is hazy, I always believed that the bendy busses was a project driven by Livingstone rather than him wanting to replace them.

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Oliver Schick in reply to @christianSpaceman

Livingstone had the Routemaster policy long before articulated buses came into widespread use. He was convinced by TfL buses that articulated buses were the future. Of course, this about-turn was widely seen as a betrayal and no doubt dented his popularity considerably.

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christianSpaceman in reply to @Oliver Schick

Aah - I see, Bendy busses were his (tfls?) solution to the original Routemaster. I misread your comment that he (and then Boris) wanted a solution to replace the Bendies.

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