bod43 wrote:


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.



Tommyrot.

Old 507 bendy - 441 seats across 9 buses (49 per bus, 2.04 standees per
seat)
New 507 rigid - 315 seats across 15 buses (21 per bus, 3.6 standees per
seat)

[the reason being to keep the extra cost down to a mere £214k per annum
- obviously you could have gone on adding buses, drivers and taking more
roadspace but it would just become even more ridiculous than it already is]

Your point being thus eradicated, kindly go away and have a rethink.
Londoners tend to prefer getting on their form of transport rather than
having a seat, as the experience of the Class 313s on Overground will
attest, not to mention a century or so of underground rail use, which
has evolved vehicles designed for high standee use without anyone
particularly complaining beyond the usual complaints of British people
in cities. Anyway, standee buses on the Red Arrows came in the late
1960s, for much the same reason the bendies came in - high and
increasing peak demand, and you can either propose a better way of
dealing with that or a way to reduce demand or sod off, frankly.

Tom