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, and also carry a similar number
of passengers. This will therefore help reduce congestion as it will
occupy less space, being shorter.

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 note that Swansea council has spent millions on the roads of the
city cenntre to permit the local bus operator to run a bendy bus -
nobody from the council has been able to suggest any benefits of the
newe bus
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Only some ghastly, dehumanised moron would want to get rid of the Routemaster.
Ken Livingstone 2001.

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