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These writhing whales of the road have swung their hefty rearends round our corners for the final time.
On 25 July, 15:47, Tom Barry wrote:
Are motorismists anti-bendy? Yes, certainly the more militant ones - poking a few random people on Twitter who were applauding Boris on the bendy issue, it turned out very quickly that they were basically motorists (or in one case a motorcyclist) for whom a bendy is an impediment to getting about London in their tin cans - obviously there's sa strong Clarkson 'why-should-the-poor-get-about-faster-than-me' element to this. *What's notable is that they use the same bendy myths ('not built for London's roads', 'great in Berlin/Amsterdam/wherever, but not British') when what they actually mean is 'I don't like 100+ people of lower social class in a bus getting in my way when I'm driving'. I will never applaud the idiot Boris, nor the hardline Tories who are hiding behind him, but the silly characterisation of the objections to bendy buses is disingenuous. Never mind class or party politics; what about "I don't like to have a totally unsuitable vehicle blocking the pedestrian crossings, forcing me to risk my life to get across the road"? Surely we can do better than choose between a seventy-year old design and a design that is only suitable for airports and boulevards? What about a design of bus suitable for modern-day London? Is that so bluddy difficult to imagine? |
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