Goodbye bendy bus

Never understood the problem. Apart from maybe there are some tight turns the driver has to negotiate, especially when there are diversions. But as a fellow road user in/on any form of transport do you not just give them the appropriate room?? not hard.

At least bendys and Routemasters had a bit of something interesting to them.

We're just gonna be left with bog standard double and single deckers now. BORING.

And i've jsut read Oliver's massive post and this is seeming more and more like a massive logic fail.

I like the double decker thought, especially in the night time, it's always nice sitting in the top, somewhat calming.

I like the double decker thought, especially in the night time, it's always nice sitting in the top, somewhat calming.

Which bus is that?It's just that every time I've been on a bus at night it's full of drunken fuckwits(me included).

i just noticed yesterday morning that the 38's had been replaced with double deckers, i thought the night buses were still out so nearly went back to bed!

I never even noticed this morning and I cycle the 38 route. Whoopsie. I think I was concentrating too hard on my 8mph aero tuck into the solid headwind to pay attention to things like other road users.

Man i love standing on that join in the middle as it goes around corners. always a little worried that i'd be grabbed caught and pinched to death in between the front and the back half.

they are not really for londons streets though

What kind of message are we sending to the Welsh?
These buses haven't worked in London, no one likes them... here, have them in sawnsea!
We'll be sending them Boris next!

^plan.

They weren't unpopular, but if there's a significant rise in fatalities/injuries then there's no reason to keep them. I say IF

I like the double decker thought, especially in the night time, it's always nice sitting in the top, somewhat calming.

Unless there's a little gimp with his phone on speaker playing garage/grime/R&B.

Man i love standing on that join in the middle as it goes around corners. always a little worried that i'd be grabbed caught and pinched to death in between the front and the back half.

+1 The DLR is great for that too, plus you can run to the front and pretend you are driving the train and whoosh into the tunnel plus I found a pound once on the DLR.

They should replace the number 38 with the DLR.

+I found a pound once on the DLR.

I think I bought a chocolate with it.

I think I bought a chocolate with it.

although it might have been a can of beer.

DLR might get in the way though tommy, what about if they put it underground?

^Tried to edit the DLR wikipedia page with this information. Can't believe it isn't in the entry.

although it might have been a can of beer.

chocolate beer?

me too...on the night bus home that seems to be where all the good chat happens....always fun watching the drunk high heel brigade fall over in this bit too.

Man i love standing on that join in the middle as it goes around corners. always a little worried that i'd be grabbed caught and pinched to death in between the front and the back half.

they are not really for londons streets though

Goodbye Bendy Bus.

Ive been hit from behind by busses twice. Neither time was a bendy. Its not the busses that needed changing it was the fucking driving test. Boris is reactionary twat.

There always was a mix of double deckers and bendy buses on the 38 route. Often seemed to be bendy in the morning on the way into work and double decker home, but that might just be coincedence. I used to live next to Hackney Empire and the double deckers would peer right into my bedroom. Quite fun seeing a stream of nosey faces go by...

If a bus inspires such hatred that a man gets elected on a million vote mandate because he promised to get rid of them, then that is reason enough to get rid of them.

Ordinary buses do not make people hate them with such a passion, and the Routemaster was positively loved. Why does it always have to come down to stats and figures? Bendy buses dehumanised the city just a bit more, and by getting rid of them it becomes just that bit more human again.

People voted for Boris because he was a daft funny looking man from the telly, thinking it would be *hilarious, arf arf, *if he became mayor of London. Oh, and because a lot of people didnt like Ken.
I dont mean to be rude, but if someone decides to vote for the mayor of London purely on the preference of one bus over another, then they are a fucking moron.

If a bus inspires such hatred that a man gets elected on a million vote mandate because he promised to get rid of them, then that is reason enough to get rid of them.

Although that was essentially his only election pledge, that wasn't why so many people voted him in, more the daily mail/standard campaign the oust ken, but anyway..

Why does it always have to come down to stats and figures? Bendy buses dehumanised the city just a bit more, and by getting rid of them it becomes just that bit more human again.

because stats offer an objective means of assessment.

dehumanised the city? without them the city is more "human"? Are they breeding the new routematers from stem cells? you talk a lot of shit.

Mass hysteria whipped up by the media. See the MMR vaccine case for a good example of something whipped up out of nothing.