It`s hard to believe but this will be the last Christmas where we can go
shopping up west and be able to get a routemaster home :-(

I for one are going to miss the icon of London.

At least it looks like they aren't`t making the same mistake that they made
with the RT`s and will keep many RM`s in good working condition for many
more years to come

Here is a link to an BBC obituary to the RM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4075085.stm

Robert McCall wrote:

It`s hard to believe but this will be the last Christmas where we can go
shopping up west and be able to get a routemaster home :-(

Yes, next year I'll have room on my bus home for all my shopping!

Hmmmmmmmm......Not if you happen to be on a Citaro Artic route U
won`t...........Unless U hang ur shoppin round ur neck and hang urself from
the straps.......all together now...."Swing Lowwwwwww....Sweeeeet
Charrrrrriottt,comin for to take Stuart an his shoppin Home.....".....
: )

Stuart wrote:
Yes, next year I'll have room on my bus home for all my shopping!

That is so true.
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Joe wrote to uk.transport.london on Sun, 12 Dec 2004:

Stuart wrote:
Yes, next year I'll have room on my bus home for all my shopping!

That is so true.

*If* you can get on the bus in the first place and get to a seat -
there's seldom anywhere to sit on the ground floor that isn't facing
backwards or sideways (fine, if you're one of the lucky ones that
doesn't get car-sick unless they sit facing forwards) so you have to
haul everything up the stairs, if people aren't blocking the stairs, and
then down again, too....
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Robert McCall wrote:
It`s hard to believe but this will be the last Christmas where we can
go shopping up west and be able to get a routemaster home :-(

I for one are going to miss the icon of London.

At least it looks like they aren't`t making the same mistake that
they made with the RT`s and will keep many RM`s in good working
condition for many more years to come

Here is a link to an BBC obituary to the RM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4075085.stm

I expect a lot of people were upset when the horsebuses were withdrawn.

Do you get joy from being a moronic killjoy?

Why not let those of us who wish to mourn an icon do so without childish
carping?

Marc.

Mait001 wrote:
Do you get joy from being a moronic killjoy?

Why not let those of us who wish to mourn an icon do so without
childish carping?


No one's carping, merely making an observation. If you wish to wallow in
nostalgia then don't let me stop you.

Mait001 wrote:
Do you get joy from being a moronic killjoy?

Why not let those of us who wish to mourn an icon do so without
childish carping?


No one's carping, merely making an observation. If you wish to wallow in
nostalgia then don't let me stop you.

When someone makes a reference to horse-buses, it goes much further than
"merely making an observation". It is sarcastic nonsense and, frankly, beneath
contempt.

You and your ilk have successfully got rid of a design icon in favour of trash
- you have clearly won the argument, as far as T.F.L., Livngstone and
Hendy-Bendy are concerned. Is it really so offensive to you that some of us
should put forward, as has been on this thread many times, the cogent arguments
against this retrograde step?

Or, as I have already said, not content with winning the battle, is your
victory not complete without rubbing our (the losers') noses in it? Even
Germans were (and are) allowed to mourn their Nazi losses without churlish
objections from people suggesting that they are "wallowing in nostalgia".

Marc.

Mait001 wrote:
Mait001 wrote:
Do you get joy from being a moronic killjoy?

Why not let those of us who wish to mourn an icon do so without
childish carping?


No one's carping, merely making an observation. If you wish to
wallow in nostalgia then don't let me stop you.

When someone makes a reference to horse-buses, it goes much further
than "merely making an observation". It is sarcastic nonsense and,
frankly, beneath contempt.

You and your ilk have successfully got rid of a design icon in favour
of trash - you have clearly won the argument, as far as T.F.L.,
Livngstone and Hendy-Bendy are concerned. Is it really so offensive
to you that some of us should put forward, as has been on this thread
many times, the cogent arguments against this retrograde step?

Or, as I have already said, not content with winning the battle, is
your victory not complete without rubbing our (the losers') noses in
it? Even Germans were (and are) allowed to mourn their Nazi losses
without churlish objections from people suggesting that they are
"wallowing in nostalgia".


What is my "ilk"?