On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 23:59:19 -0000, Jim Brittin
[wake up to reply] wrote:

In article , rjnews1130
says...
Helen Deborah Vecht wrote:
"Richard J." typed

John Rowland wrote:
Does anyone know if TfL are planning to commemorate it in any way?
Apart from Ken Livingstone declaring it to be world famous London
icon, and then banning it.

Have I missed something? In what sense has Ken Livingstone
"banned" the Beck map?

I think it was a reference to the fate of the Routemaster...

Oh, *that* was what I missed! Thanks, Helen.

Still, you can't blame Livingstone for banning the Routemaster, what
with its external staircase, and the peculiar clothes that its
passengers wore ...
(See the photo and its caption at
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/news/...03-buses_x.htm )



Another attractive picture of that bus here
http://hertsmantransportbus.fotopic.net/p22131253.html


in what way would you consider to be outside the bus ?