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Old October 22nd 08, 07:20 AM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default Boris admits bendy-buses are safe - but he'll axe them anyway

On Oct 22, 1:13*am, wrote:
In article
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(John B) wrote:
I hate bendies because they are just too long to mix with other
traffic.


Based on what evidence?


Trying to get along Euston Road from King's Cross station to turn left
into Judd Street before and after the 73 became a bendy route. Observation
of the Cambridge Circus junction.


And experience of a whole load of other blocked junctions, blocked
crossings and uncomfortable journeys.

I don't understand why people's dislike, based on personal experience,
requires statistical evidence (any more than my dislike of brussels
sprouts requires statistical evidence) or should be bizarrely
dismissed as the product some kind of dodgy campaign.

(No doubt if Boris ever mentions Pendolinos, it will retrospectively
explain my hatred of them from the first time I travelled in one.)