Recliner wrote:

"I have yet to hear one convincing argument for why London needs a new
double-decker bus

She can come on a Ken-dy Bus journey with me and convince me that that bus
is better than what we had before on the route.

and until Boris comes up with some, Londoners will see this as little more
than a vanity project."

No Londoners see this as one of the things they voted for. Again she can
come with me on a bus journey in the summer when it's stuck in traffic just
15m from the bus stop with a driver who won't let us out. Then she can tell
me that the Routemaster is a bad thing.