London Banter - View Single Post - Mayor's Boris Island plan killed off TfL takeover of SoutheasternMetro services

Mizter T · June 12th 15, 08:49 AM posted to uk.transport.london

On 12/06/2015 09:37, d wrote:

On Fri, 12 Jun 2015 01:20:07 +0100
Paul Corfield wrote:
We must beg to differ. They make me ill [1] and I refuse to travel on

They're not *that* bad. God knows I remember some school bus trips back
in the day when it was like being in an overheating tumble dryer.

Complete waste of money however. The Bendy buses were far more convenient
and if it hadn't been for Boris sucking up to the militant cycle lobby who
represent nobody apart from themselves and wanting to give Ken 2 fingers london
would have got its moneys worth from them. Though I expect by now they'd be
life expired anyway or wouldn't meet current pollution regs and would have been
pastured off somewhere else.

It was *not* to do with any cycling lobby.

There were cyclists who didn't like the bendy buses, but there was never
any consensus across the 'cycling lobby' against bendy buses.

The idea that bendies went because cyclists disliked them is a myth.
(Just because Boris is a cyclist doesn't mean his views match those of
all cyclists - very far from it.)

There were a number of reasons given for the removal of bendy buses,
some of them being rather more emotional than rational.

Given the (metaphorical) heat over bendy buses, I don't expect anyone to
be proposing their reintroduction to London any time soon, however
suitable they might be for at least a few duties. Such is politics.

In the meantime, we've got a bus that's too hot, courtesy of a Mayor who
never travels by bus.

impressed. Constant demands for working air con or opening windows.

Didn't you get the memo? Windows that open are so 20th century. Far too simple
and convenient - much better to have an expensive technical solution that
doesn't work quite as well.