Boris Watch

A brief round up of online reaction to the 521 debendification over the weekend.  Notably less pro-Boris cheerleading this time round:

DJDarkside: Since when did they scrap the 521 bendy bus from London Bridge? These singleton ones are not cool.

jamiebarry: Well done Boris, replacing the 521 bendy bus with a single decker bus WITH HARDLY ANY [...]

A post worth quoting in its entirety from the Skyscraper City Forums:
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Red shows districts in local authorities that voted for Ken Livingstone.
Blue shows districts in local authorities that voted for Boris Johnson.
12: Dulwich – Peckham – Walworth – Elephant & Castle – Oxford St
18: Sudbury – Wembley – Harlesden – Paddington – Euston
25: Ilford – [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]