On Tue, 1 Oct 2019 20:18:06 +0100, MissRiaElaine
wrote:

On 01/10/2019 10:50, David Cantrell wrote:

I don't get this antipathy to the Boris buses. I'm a passenger,
frequently. They do their job well, combining the benefits of a normal
double decker with the one benefit of the bendy monstrosities - quick
boarding - without the humungous downsides of the bendies taking up too
much road space and blocking junctions.

They just look "wrong" to me. And furthermore, they are an insult to the
genuine, real Routemaster, which served London for many years and still
would to this day if not for the PC brigade.

It's a shame you added "PC brigade". It is not a terrible thing that
almost everyone can use a bus now, or that 50 year old buses are not
on our streets. Routemasters were wonderful in their day, and I agree
that BJ's buses don't deserve the name. The only benefit they have is
the one that is on the way out.

I don't think the articulated buses were monstrosities either, in my
opinion they were the most user-friendly buses we've ever had. That
the mayor would have started a campaign of lies about them won't be a
surprise to anyone now.

Richard.