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[MIKYSALT]

[quote name='Rob ♪' date='Apr 9 2008, 10:28 PM' post='160466']
, I think too much has been said about busses already!!
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No it hasent

Bendy Bus
The cyclists and pedestrians nightmere

[SJD88]

This bus thing? Is that honestly a big issue??????? I mean I don't know much about London but I would assume like any big city pollution, crime and homelessness and yes transportation but how to make it more accessible not the design of the bus.

[The Tower Bridge Fox]

of course its not the most important issue, but its just one
example of something not suitable or popular for London being
foisted on it.
and in a democracy people can vote for what ever reason they want.
there has been allot of accidents with Bendy buses becouse
London's streets are narrow and they sometimes mount the pathment
to go around corners.

[faster]

bendy bus?

[The Tower Bridge Fox]

Faster, on Apr 11 2008, 02:28 PM, said:

bendy bus?

Bendy Bendy Bendy Bendy Bendy BendyBendy!

Bus Bus Bus!
BENDY BUS!!

[RobH]

There have, statistically, been no more accidents with the bendy bus than with the normal bus, as Livingstone pointed out in the debate (another number Ken had which Boris didn't).

Faster:

Normal London Bus


Bendy Bus

[faster]

At least they are Mercedes

[MIKYSALT]

According to figures slipped out to the London Assembly by TfL itself, bendy buses cause 5.6 pedestrian injuries per million miles operated, compared with
2.6 per million for all other buses

The rest of this article was to Horrifically gruesome to put here.

[SJD88]

I don't like the "bendy" bus the double decker bus looks so much better. Thats all i have to go on. Do the knew buses run on cleaner fuel or better gas mileage?

[MIKYSALT]

Before the Routmarster was scraped By Ken Livingston.
the buses worked as well as ever. In the early 1990s, they were totally refurbished, with new interiors and engines that will meet modern emission standards for a decade to come.


Surely a modern bus must be more fuel-efficient?

But here, too, remarkably, the Route master wins. The bus, with its still revolutionary light and simple aluminium structure, is lighter and less fuel-thirsty than any of the heavy modern buses which replace it. They do five and a half miles to the gallon, but the Route master does eight.