@simonmayo routemaster air-conditioning terrible

— Mark Bolstridge (@mark_bolstridge) May 19, 2014

Yes, it’s Monday and a high of 26°C in London. How did other Londoners enjoy their journeys on Boris Johnson’s New Bus For London today?

Your new buses are hotter than hell @TfLOfficial

— lucyburchell (@lucyburchell)

Sir Peter Hendy, Commissioner of Transport for London, speaking about the New Bus For London in June 2013:

It’s fabulous. It’s a lovely vehicle, very comfortable, popular, well-designed – everyone likes it. They love it.

According to the Met Office, a high of 24°C in central London today.

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Yes, ha ha, very English, muddle through, make a joke, pretend everything’s fine. Well, everything is not fine with the WrightBus New Bus For London.

You can use the word “iconic” as often as you like – it doesn’t change the fact that the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has inflicted upon […]

It’s definitely back to normal warm-weather operations for Boris Johnson’s Heatherwick-designed sauna-on-wheels:

Crap Boris Bus today was unbearable. The windows don't open. The air cooling system is inefficient. The design is flawed. #WorstBusForLondon

— Anthony Davis (@theanthonydavis) May 16, 2014

.@TfLOfficial your new #Routemaster stinks. Now on top […]

As reported by passengers yesterday, the latest batch of New Bus For London (or New Routemaster, as TfL now insist on calling the things) is unpleasantly hot and stuffy.

I boarded LT143 on route 148 at White City Bus Station at 1:26pm today. As the bus only had a couple of passengers onboard and […]

A high of only 18°C in London today, yet we have reports that the New Bus For London, supposedly cured of its heat-exhaustion-inducing, sauna-like internal temperatures, is back to its old tricks:

Why are there no windows on the new routemaster buses @TfLOfficial ??The 148 was a sauna […]

Yet another cyclist lost their life in London today, at the notorious Elephant and Castle roundabout, described as “welcoming and safe“ by TfL in 2010 and by Boris Johnson in 2011 as

One thing that we’re sure of, when Boris attaches himself to some whizzy innovation, it’ll usually end up costing a fortune in public money and suffering a variety of easily predictable snags caused by overconfidence and arrogance.  To a list that includes cycle hire, cable cars, Lardbuses, electric cars, etc. etc. we can probably load […]

Helen’s been out and about looking for new No. 10 lardbuses and has found one – the weight is now down a bit further to 12190kg, suggesting they’re eking out very small gains (the previous two weights were 12220 and 12230kg).

Meanwhile the not at all vanity B5LH Euro 6 revamp is apparently […]

Boris Johnson continues to delight us with his cornucopia of totally true, honest facts which, no doubt, one of his Bullingdon mates told him whilst they were setting fire to £50 notes in front of tramps. His latest gem appears in a megalomania-indulging piece of sycophantic adoration from Total Politics:

…it’s […]