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Boris admits bendy-buses are safe - but he'll axe them anyway
On Oct 22, 12:38*am, Mr Thant
wrote: I'm deeply sceptical, although it's possible that the people you spoke to were idiots. In real life, bendies provide a much better service than other buses on a given route. He did say they "weren't very popular". What he didn't say was whether those same people thought replacing them with normal double deckers would fix anything. Fair point, although 'popular' only has any relevance at all when compared to plausible alternatives (so if bendies weren't very popular compared to, say, gold-plated Rolls-Royces, or double deckers that weren't rammed so full you'd need to wait for three to pass before you could get on one, then that's entirely irrelevant). I lived in Finsbury Park when the 29 got bendified. It went from being a route where you'd have two or more double deckers go past you in the morning too full to stop, to a bus which - although always well- loaded, and relatively rarely endowed with many seats - you could still always get on. Compared to that fact, none of the other criteria matter in the slightest. -- John Band john at johnband dot org www.johnband.org |
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