Seriously, name one good thing about routemasters. Go on, just one.

I'll give you ten:

1. Windows that open at the front of the upper deck.
2. Fuel efficiency (ever tried standing near the rear of a more modern bus: the
engine emissions change the climate for several feet in area).
3. Ease of maintenance.
4. Conductors.
5. Upper deck on which to get away from the melee downstairs
6. Excellent suspension.
7. Superbly ergonomically designed and aesthetic from all angles.
8. Excellent drver visibility.
9. Aluminium construction ensuring less weight, i.e. less wear & tear on roads.
10. The rear upper storey seats are the nearest thing I will ever experience to
being in a (double-decker) limousine!

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!

That's just a ridiculous assertion: absence of doors is the whole point. Also,
at the time of their design, fitted doors on buses were illegal.


Compare that to the sleek, stylish lines of
modern buses, designed by proper designers, not a committee of bean-counting
bureaucrats.

Utter rubbish. Do you realy think at TPL or whatever they are now called are
more aesthetically pleasing?

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

Several million will disagree with you there.

Marc.