On Sep 16, 11:08*am, wrote:
On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 03:02:23 -0700 (PDT)

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...

Though Boris has never knowlingly admitted to being wrong, perhaps the
cuts might make him reevaluate the logic of leaving a couple of million
quids worth of bendy bus lying around idle and spending money on resurrecting
a bus that wasn't actually as much loved as a lot of people seem to think..

They were cold in the winter and not very comfortable.

Putting aside questions of the comfort and loveability of the old
Routemasters to one side for a moment...

I suppose that if one was feeling (exceptionally) generous to Boris,
one could perhaps argue that the whole 'new Routemaster' idea was born
of a slightly different era, i.e. before the financial meltdown really
began in earnest. Though like much of Boris's manifesto it also seemed
to be born of vague ideas scribbled on wine stained napkins conceived
during blahdy good lunches what ho.