On 28 July, 13:24, "Just zis Guy, you know?"
wrote:
On Jul 28, 1:15*pm, "Basil Jet"

wrote:
Maybe the bendy routes in London should have been introduced as new routes
constrained to follow the wider roads, instead of taking over existing
routes like the 73 and expecting bendies to turn from Stoke Newington Church
St to Albion Road without causing problems.

Yes, that would have been a good idea.

I think that getting rid of them all just because they are used badly
is every bot as foolish as introducing them into routes where they
cause problems.

I have commuted daily by bus on a bendy route and
they have approximately zero seats. I think that this may
have figured into the calculation to phase them out.

Nothing at all to do with them being Ken's busses and not
Boris' I am sure.

I think that a key reason that they are less pleasant for
cyclists is that the larger size of them results in there being
an increased frequency of ill-judged attempted overtakes (where
for example the driver drives as if the bus had zero length) and
fewer options are left for the cyclist when the bus driver offers
imminent death. Bizarrely, driving a bus in a manner contrary
to the recommendations of the highway code does not seem
to be considered careless or dangerous unless someone
is dead.

The aircraft industry and the HSE have recognised for
decades that routine unsafe operation results in routine
deaths, with a bit of luck the HSE will turn their attention
further towards road deaths and injuries while "at work" in
the near future.