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Old December 10th 03, 12:10 AM posted to uk.transport.london
John Rowland John Rowland is offline
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Default Bendibus 18

"Stuart" wrote in message
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The buses really struggle to get round past Warren Street
tube station onto the Euston Road - the corner's too tight.


I rode one the other day and looked out for that, but the bus had no
problem. Maybe some of the drivers are less capable than ours. One thing I
did notice was that at a number of the (westbound) stops, the driver stopped
with the front door alongside railings: this even happened at the startpoint
at Euston.

As we went through Harlesden it struck me that, with the exception of the
former Red Arrows, these "free buses" have all been targeted at London's
most notorious areas... is this a deliberate policy of redistribution of
wealth, by making sure that people in the poorest neighbourhoods can get in
and out of Central London free of charge? Is Livingstone, Gavron or someone
similar deciding which routes should get burndibuses?

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