Has Boris removed the flexi-busses off the streets of London yet?

Question

Has Boris removed the flexi-busses off the streets of London yet?

Answer 1

No !!!

Answer 2

NO! Its obviously going to take a while, it takes a VERY long time to build a bus in the first place. They do their job well, so all this rubbish about them being unsuitable for London's streets is just WRONG - First York have several Bendy-Bus routes, they manage fine, and Yorks got more narrow roads and lanes then London for drivers to negotiate!

Answer 3

Nope - the flexi combustible buses 're still out there blocking the view as usual.

Does anyone really believe Boris will get rid of the much hated bendy bus and replace it with a modern version of the fab Routemaster?

Look, I'm a Londoner born and bred, right!  I'm not daft.  It was the Horris Cutler Tories who controlled London back in the 1960s and who introduced the one-man bus.  No one wants to be a conducter now and have his face bashed in by some drugged up yob or a gang of same.  Get the picture?

The London Routmaster (Oxford Street) passing a bendy - gerrchah!

http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=FFk11MSEMn...

. . . .don't blink, it's only 10 seconds worth of joy. . . .

Answer 4

not yet but i can see him doing it just to annoy red ken and his labour lovers!

Answer 5

I know he's a comedy character, but now he's been elected, he's got to behave like a politician.

When he shot his mouth off about replacing bendy buses with Routemasters, he didn't think through the following points:

* Thanks to an earlier Conservative leader, London's buses were flogged off to private enterprise years ago,  TfL might have a degree of control, but the Mayor doesn't own the buses.

* Routemasters aren't made any more.  He'd have to find someone to make them.  They'd have to be upgraded to modern Health & Safety requirements.  So they'd be very expensive.

*You'd need 3 Routemasters to replace each bendy bus.  And 3 drivers plus 3 conductors to replace each bendy bus driver.

*So who's going to pay for the new Routemasters and extra staff?  It won't be the bus operating companies (they won't get any more fares for it).  It won't be the charge payer - the Tories daren't put up Council Tax.

So if you're expecting Boris to do anything about bendy buses, don't hold your breath.

Answer 6

not yet and i honestly doubt he ever will. Empty promises to get what he wants, just like all politicians

Answer 7

No, i got on one today, when i stand in the middle i always think, what if the bus detached and i have to hold on to the bar for my life, and my feet are dragging

Answer 8

nope.  And I doubt it will happen.  He wants to re-introduce routemasters (remember the 1950's gas guzzlers , the inaccessible ones with the stairs on the back?)  Except anyone with disabilities or pushchairs is up in arms so they want to make a new routemaster which is wheelchair accessible (in other words - a bus!)  The cost is deemed to be so high that he can't get away with it so I guess they'll just be replaced by the normal double deckers you see everywhere else.

Answer 9

Eventually they will be eradicated from our streets, but it will be on a gradual basis, to totally remove them in one fail swoop would cost millions, something what the government at the moment can't afford to do, but yes, they will soon be gone and sent to ken's big bus depot up above, R.I.P.

Answer 10

no