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Debendification Reality : Higher Costs, Fewer Seats

July 27th, 2009 14 Comments

Andrew Gilligan, writing as kennite, ross281, etc., opined that the reason for his hatred of bendy buses was all about the seating capacity:
With only 2,009 seats available in the peak hour, as against 3,960 under the old Routemaster regime,the “new 73” was not better from every angle at all (PX, 2005, as himself)
And because the [...]

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Bendies Back From The Dead?

July 26th, 2009 No Comments

Boris in a strangely missing press release salvaged from the Google Cache (and saved, in case of shenanigans):
Nine bendy buses running the Waterloo to Victoria route are the first to be replaced. The Mayor also announced that the entire fleet of 396 buses will have left the capital by the end of 2011, four years [...]

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