On 16/09/10 11:02, Mizter T wrote:

It remains hard to see how this expensive project might proceed given
the lack of money and coming cuts, though now Boris had made up his
mind to try and stick around for another term I guess he might feel
the need to commit to it more firmly. If existing bus services get cut
to pay for this, well...

I would expect that a lot of the money for the design and prototyping
will be contractually committed at this stage, so outright cancellation
would be expensive, and probably politically unpalatable as a result.

More likely, if savings are to be made, would be for the initial order
of production buses to be scaled down and/or put back by a year or two.

I wouldn't be surprised if we'll see a much more gradual phasing out of
the bendybuses than Boris might have envisioned.

-roy