Comments on: Bendy Jihad – Boris Beats Himself Up, Claims Victory

By: Cameron Kills Boris Airport

Cameron Kills Boris Airport — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:22:14 +0000

[...] that sort of Black Knight attitude coming from the Boris Bunker, Cameron slapping it down hasn’t really got a downside [...]

By: The Shawcross Question: Latest Evasive Answer From Bendy Boris

The Shawcross Question: Latest Evasive Answer From Bendy Boris — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:45:03 +0000

[...] the danger to cyclists from bendy buses is, as we’ve seen, negligible compared to HGVs. Boris, of course, is quite happy to let 30,000 vehicles into London’s WEZ [...]

By: Is this the most ridiculous Boris quote of all time? « Confessions of a Political Animal

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:55:54 +0000

[...] over cyclist-squashing bendy buses, culturally-derivative Chinese, inverted pyramids of piffle and tribal warriors with watermelon [...]

By: DKE « Alternate Seat of TYR

DKE « Alternate Seat of TYR — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 15:00:15 +0000

[...] in London, elections, intelligence and stupidity, politics, strategy I was reading the various Boris Johnson blogs earlier this week when something struck me. It was the combination of the Boriswatch story [...]

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:05:34 +0000

Exactly, I’ve been reading the LCC, and they’re far more worried about bad road design and HGVs. The two big things to come out about bendies in the last month have been that the passengers don’t dislike them enough to complain to London Travelwatch and that they don’t squish cyclists, which rubs out two key myths of the bendy jihad – note how ‘London’s unpopular bendy bus’ is a meme that goes unchallenged virtually everywhere in the MSM despite us now knowing it had no basis in fact – that’s the hallmark of a good propaganda exercise.

I’m willing to accept that some cyclists find overtaking them worrying, but that’s due to length, and there won’t be any less length of bus under TfL’s debendification plans, as we’ve seen. It’s always better to separate cyclists from traffic as far as possible, but this involves taking road space away from Kulveer Ranger’s precious motorists.

By: Guano

Guano — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 08:25:05 +0000

But where is the evidence that cyclists perceive bendy buses as being particularly dangerous? A recent letter I received from London Cycling Campaign says that they are campaigning for better mirrors on HGVs and against motorcycles in bus lanes but does not mention bendy buses.

By: Perception over Reality « Someday I Will Treat You Good

Perception over Reality « Someday I Will Treat You Good — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:27:16 +0000

[...] Bo D’Or for the image, analysis from Tory Troll and Boris Watch. [...]

By: AdamB

AdamB — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:32:26 +0000

Boris not replying to letters seems to be becoming a running theme. Doesn’t he have someone to do that for him?

By: Helen

Helen — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:30:12 +0000

Boris enrages Sebastian Faulks: http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23575592-details/My+battle+for+Ladbroke+Grove/article.do

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:01:03 +0000

Moreover, at an initial cost of £12m a year, which would pay for the Parliament Square improvement in 18 months and result in an actual improvement for London’s cyclists.