wheel on each corner, "double decker" shaped double decked box on top. i think it could work

I never understood the bendy single deckers. If the point is to ease congestion why make a bus with a bigger footprint?

Nice one Boris. I liked the old routemasters

I think they should have two staircases. One for going up one for going down. So many times you get twats who wedge themselves on the staircase and block the flow. Also make sure they have cameras on the staircases as, and this is the
honest truth, I heard that youths up to mischief would loiter on the staircases as there were no cameras there. This was proven to be true to me as once I saw such a youth, and during this journey whilst he loitered there I/a few people heard a loud thud from that direction, glancing over and i/we observed how he picked up his fallen gun. NO WORD OF A LIE! Cool as you like, he dropped his gun and just picked it up and shoved it back into his low riders as if he had dropped his bus pass. UNREAL!

vortexual

~£10 says that current double decker design will stay and so will bendy buses for a while. Routemaster's are consigned to history, unless you change how people move they'll be a waste of time. BTW two staircases = less seats and less people on bus

longer bus=more expensive bus + more weight = more polluting bus

fact is this is a dumb idea and he's only doing it to play to the crowd. Majority of london buses do not need replacing and nobody's actually going to pay for new bus replacements when there's more pressing concerns i.e. getting tube maintenance back on track and filling in pot holes!

congestion charge isn't going to increase, in fact congestion charge revenues will fall once certain contracts expire as Boris will end the western extension charge zone. Also the hike put forward by Ken previously will not go forward.

With regards to materials, remember the credit crunch and prices of raw materials at present?

Slower buses = more traffic and congestion

again bad idea!

Current double deckers work fine, and really there's people who get paid to do this stuff that will have enough off the shelf options. So a publicity stunt is not needed. Anyhow his aim is...

"The bendy bus is unsuitable for London's streets, they are twice as dangerous as non-articulated buses and have almost three times the rate of fare evasion. I will phase out bendy buses and run a new competition to find a 21st century Routemaster that has full disabled access, runs on clean fuel and has conductors."

He never promised to bring them back, a nice publicity stunt

1) Bus lanes don't cover entire routes and actually unless you have enough buses using them (which isn't usually the case) they create more congestion! Also slower buses = need for more buses to have the same frequency of collections from stops.

2) Obviously that isn't a ill informed assumption, prices of all raw materials needed to make a bus are increasing

3) I do work in local government and if you read all of the material released by TFL/ the mayor etc regarding this its blatantly obvious that its a publicity campaign. From a competition, to tender, to design, to safety testing etc will take more than three years. Also in everything that's been released they use the term 'could' not 'will'...

4) Congestion charge isn't a solution, neither is just increasing the number of buses and especially reintroducing the routemaster. A better solution would be to just purchase more buses of the present design and increase capacity on routes that are very busy... saves londoners a lot of money...

5) Yep this convo is over

zippie said...1) Bus lanes don't cover entire routes and actually unless you have enough buses using them (which isn't usually the case) they create more congestion! Also slower buses = need for more buses to have the same frequency of collections from stops.

2) Obviously that isn't a ill informed assumption, prices of all raw materials needed to make a bus are increasing

3) I do work in local government and if you read all of the material released by TFL/ the mayor etc regarding this its blatantly obvious that its a publicity campaign. From a competition, to tender, to design, to safety testing etc will take more than three years. Also in everything that's been released they use the term 'could' not 'will'...

4) Congestion charge isn't a solution, neither is just increasing the number of buses and especially reintroducing the routemaster. A better solution would be to just purchase more buses of the present design and increase capacity on routes that are very busy... saves londoners a lot of money...

5) Yep this convo is over

Pay attention Zippo.
Admittedly I've not read all literature released by TFL, but round of applause for you in undertaking something so interesting I really do feel as if I've missed out on what life has to offer

On an end note you might recall that I actually did end my last post "ZZZzzz" but you seemed to ignore that.

Brave soul Zip storming out of the closet and admitting to being a civil servant. I say brave because for the uninitiated reading here civli servants each day, and this is true, go through the excruciating task of secretly swearing the following oath whilst standing in front of a mirror with one eye closed, standing on one leg and holding a banana in each hand: " I solemnly swear that I will see & hear only what I want to and shall uphold this revealing absolutely no embarrassment whatsoever even though I know I will end up presenting what others had already told me as my own unique brilliance no matter what and battle to the death, retirement or redundancy."

Zip someone with so much...what's the word... ah yes... as I was saying for someone with so much potential: and run for mayor

now all you have left to do is call each other hitler and throw your own poo back and forth

you fucking winner you

oh and in theory they are less discriminatory as wheelchair users can also be gassed