On Sat, 20 Dec 2008, Petert wrote:

On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:20:27 -0000, "Recliner"
wrote:

But Labour's transport spokesperson on the London Assembly, Val
Shawcross, said: "The design competition may have been fun and the
winning designs are extremely impressive, but this is not a serious way
to make policy and not a worthwhile use of public money.

"I have yet to hear one convincing argument for why London needs a new
double-decker bus and until Boris comes up with some, Londoners will see
this as little more than a vanity project."

Val Shawcross is obviously mentally challenged - the new bus would (I
imagine) replace the unsafe bendy bus,

It isn't unsafe. Cite some solid data or kindly sod off.

and also carry a similar number of passengers.

While having fewer doors and more stairs. Which means it will have to wait
for longer at each stop, and so ...

This will therefore help reduce congestion

No it won't.

as it will occupy less space, being shorter.

Almost completely irrelevant.

If the stupid tart had a reasonable number of functioning brain cells
then we could assume that she was capable of feeling embarassed at her
dear leaders decision to scrap the Routemaster and replace it with the
bendy thingy.

I think you might want to carry out a quick neuron census yourself before
letting rubbish like that dribble out of your brain.

tom

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