On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 14:49:49 +0100
"Tim Roll-Pickering" wrote:
There were attacks on the buses before Bojo's campaign. Part of it is down
to London exceptionalism, especially as the bendies coincided with the
phasing out of the Routemaster, but also the buses were never terribly well
sold to portions of the public who have to use them.

Why do you need to "sell" a bus? People will know if they like it as soon
as they use it. And frankly anything is better than a routemaster. Once you
wade past all the olde worlde tea and cakes watching a village cricket
match with a spitfire flying overhead nostaligia crap you realise what a
truly and utterly dreadful bus they were. Cramped, slow, noisy, jerky and hot
without a single redeaming feature other than an open platform you could jump
on and off if it was going slow enough. Useful for traffic jams in central
london, a joke for anywhere else.

B2003