--- "Mait001" wrote...

As for standing, yes, I hope you will enjoy standing between,
for example, Tottenhama and Victoria, because the number
of seats per passenger has been drastically reduced with
bendy buses.

I wouldn't want make a journey that long by bus in the first place. I'd
probably take One to Liv St then the Circle Line to Victoria. Or if I was
*really* in a hurry, the Victoria Line all the way. Buses are only last
resort means of travel for when there's no other public transport
alternative.

Personally, if I pay a fare for a journey, I
expect to be able to sit.

Sitting on a bus isn't easy either. There's just not enough legroom on most
seats, so I normally end up standing anyway. On routemasters, the
alternative is those sideways seats that we're supposed to give up for the
elderly and children. Even though the elderly and children are normally
small enough to fit into regular seats anyway!

(You are right on one thing though. Tall people should pay less because
we're forced to stand so often. The fact that we don't is more *proof* that
the world is run by an evil conspiracy of midgets dedicated to spreading
suffering amongst those taller than them!)


I happen to be very short

Ah-ha! I *knew* it...

and find stairs very difficult to manage. That's just my bad
luck. Why should the entire bus fleet be designed on the
assumption that either all of its passengers are very short
or very tall?

Single decker buses are the solution for both of us. No stairs for you, no
low ceilings for me. Perfect. We should both be glad to see them replacing
routemasters.

Seriously, name one good thing about routemasters. Go on, just one.
They're not even nice to look at thanks to that ugly great hole at the back
where some penny-pinching accountant must have decided that there wasn't
enough money for proper doors! Compare that to the sleek, stylish lines of
modern buses, designed by proper designers, not a committee of bean-counting
bureaucrats.

Ugly on the outside, cramped on the inside. No redeeming features at all.