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February 3rd 04, 03:58 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Boltar
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Save the 73 Routemaster!!!!
(Matt Ashby) wrote in message . com...
Unfortunately the Routemaster isn't capable of performing the task
required of it - safe and accessible road transport. Routemasters are
Really? Its managed it for 40 years , why suddenly has this changed (apart
from the political correctness getting in on the act of course)?
not accessible to wheelchairs, buggies or the elderly, and are
extraordinarily unsafe (as demonstrated by the people you occasionally
see trying to push other people off the platform).
Ah rubbish. They're only unsafe for the terminally stupid.
Their engines also contribute far more than modern buses to our city's
pollution levels.
Most of them have new engines.
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