On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Just zis Guy, you know? wrote:

The great joy of London is that it's a human-scale city, you can walk
from St Paul's the the National Gallery, wander round for a couple of
hours then walk on to the West End for a show. Bendy buses are out of
scale, designed for a Continental model which Wren, Hooke and others
failed to have applied to London after the fire.

You bloody what? When you say 'Continental', is the continent in question
North America, or have you just lost your marbles? Or, perhaps, never been
to a European city?

tom

--
I had no idea it was going to end in such tragedy

On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:00:56 +0100, Tom Anderson
wrote:

On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Just zis Guy, you know? wrote:

The great joy of London is that it's a human-scale city, you can walk
from St Paul's the the National Gallery, wander round for a couple of
hours then walk on to the West End for a show. Bendy buses are out of
scale, designed for a Continental model which Wren, Hooke and others
failed to have applied to London after the fire.

You bloody what? When you say 'Continental', is the continent in question
North America, or have you just lost your marbles? Or, perhaps, never been
to a European city?

tom

I understood him to mean a European city such as Paris (where I am
now) with it's long straight & comparatively broad streets (boulevards
& such like)

On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:00:56 +0100, Tom Anderson
wrote:

You bloody what? When you say 'Continental', is the continent in question
North America, or have you just lost your marbles? Or, perhaps, never been
to a European city?

No, you're right, I've never been to a European city. Apart from
Brussels. And Amsterdam. And Antwerp, Duffel, Mechelen, den Bosch,
Charleroi, Leuven, Köln, Dusseldorf, Paris, Copenhagen, Stockholm,
Madrid, Milan and a few others I can't remember off the top of my
head.

I'm sure there are mediaeval towns in Europe with narrow, winding
streets. I don't know how many of these use bendy buses. I do know
that the squabble over property rights after the fire more or less put
the kibosh on widening the road in London more than a modest amount,
and this is acknowledged by Buchanan as a problem in London
particularly.

Guy
--
http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk

On Wed, 29 Jul 2009, Just zis Guy, you know? wrote:

On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:00:56 +0100, Tom Anderson
wrote:

You bloody what? When you say 'Continental', is the continent in question
North America, or have you just lost your marbles? Or, perhaps, never been
to a European city?

No, you're right, I've never been to a European city. Apart from
Brussels. And Amsterdam. And Antwerp, Duffel, Mechelen, den Bosch,
Charleroi, Leuven, K?ln, Dusseldorf, Paris, Copenhagen, Stockholm,
Madrid, Milan and a few others I can't remember off the top of my
head.

Okay, you've definitely been to European cities, and from your answer, i
assume you weren't talking about North America. So you've flat-out lost
your marbles, then.

I'm sure there are mediaeval towns in Europe with narrow, winding
streets. I don't know how many of these use bendy buses. I do know
that the squabble over property rights after the fire more or less put
the kibosh on widening the road in London more than a modest amount, and
this is acknowledged by Buchanan as a problem in London particularly.

London has some wide, straight streets, and some little wiggly streets.
Exactly the same is true of most European cities. Saying bendies are
appropriate for European cities but not London on account of differences
in their streets is simply incorrect.

tom

--
Once, at a fair on the Heath, [Geoffrey Fletcher] overheard a man saying
that Hampstead wasn't thrilling enough. Fletcher reached over in the
darkness and stuck an ice lolly down the back of his shirt.

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On Wed, 29 Jul 2009, Just zis Guy, you know? wrote:

On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:00:56 +0100, Tom Anderson
wrote:

You bloody what? When you say 'Continental', is the continent in
question
North America, or have you just lost your marbles? Or, perhaps, never
been
to a European city?

No, you're right, I've never been to a European city. Apart from
Brussels. And Amsterdam. And Antwerp, Duffel, Mechelen, den Bosch,
Charleroi, Leuven, K?ln, Dusseldorf, Paris, Copenhagen, Stockholm,
Madrid, Milan and a few others I can't remember off the top of my
head.

Okay, you've definitely been to European cities, and from your answer, i
assume you weren't talking about North America. So you've flat-out lost
your marbles, then.

I'm sure there are mediaeval towns in Europe with narrow, winding
streets. I don't know how many of these use bendy buses. I do know that
the squabble over property rights after the fire more or less put the
kibosh on widening the road in London more than a modest amount, and this
is acknowledged by Buchanan as a problem in London particularly.

London has some wide, straight streets, and some little wiggly streets.
Exactly the same is true of most European cities. Saying bendies are
appropriate for European cities but not London on account of differences
in their streets is simply incorrect.

Bendys are quite good at wiggly streets - better than a 40' rigid.

See http://www.henden.co.uk/bendyhosp.gif

For those who know Southampton, this is the road that goes around the rear
of the South Hants Hospital.

A 40' rigid - come to think of it, anything bigger than 30' - would get
stuck. Except a bendy.....