Has anyone been on the new bendi-buses in London? They're rubbish.
I took one from King's Cross to Park Lane yesterday, the poor driver had a real job manoeuvring the bu**er (the signs on the back reckon they are longer than 18 metres), and I made the mistake of standing in the bendy bit so my feet were in the front of the bus whilst I was holding onto a handle in the back bit of the bus!
And it would have been so easy to not pay, because you are meant to buy your ticket before you get on, and no-one was checking. Great, free buses!
I could understand it if they had to get under low bridges, but seeing as they are running along the same routes as the double-deckers, that obviously isn't the case. I lived in the West End for years and I have never seen a bridge over a road (well, Hammersmith flyover perhaps). And they are hardly about easing congestion, because they take up 50% more road space than a double-decker, and as far as I could see carried no more (possibly less) passengers.
So, my question is, who decided these were a good idea? Might I suggest Londoners and tourists alike form an orderly queue to kick them square in the nuts? Why can't we just have some new double-deckers?
I took one from King's Cross to Park Lane yesterday, the poor driver had a real job manoeuvring the bu**er (the signs on the back reckon they are longer than 18 metres), and I made the mistake of standing in the bendy bit so my feet were in the front of the bus whilst I was holding onto a handle in the back bit of the bus!
And it would have been so easy to not pay, because you are meant to buy your ticket before you get on, and no-one was checking. Great, free buses!
I could understand it if they had to get under low bridges, but seeing as they are running along the same routes as the double-deckers, that obviously isn't the case. I lived in the West End for years and I have never seen a bridge over a road (well, Hammersmith flyover perhaps). And they are hardly about easing congestion, because they take up 50% more road space than a double-decker, and as far as I could see carried no more (possibly less) passengers.
So, my question is, who decided these were a good idea? Might I suggest Londoners and tourists alike form an orderly queue to kick them square in the nuts? Why can't we just have some new double-deckers?