........How much?
Isn't that a line from the Whos "Magic Bus"
As somebody who works in London, those bendy buses are a pain in the @r$e. The take ages to walk round when they stop on a zebra crossing. They're part of Ken's Oyster card miracle. It fails as all the yobs just get in the rear section and don't pay.
Routemasters failed the first time as the driver can't sell tickets. Well thats all over now. The rear platform is dangerous, compared with doors, but it was dead handy for jumping on between stops.
The Routemaster was built by the bus company to work well and to be easy to maintain, quite unlike anything else since. They cut most of them in half, and put another section in so that they could take another row of seats - and we think that stretched limo's are something new. And its built of rivetted aluminium, like a Spitfire or a D Type. I rest my case.
And the £25 congestion charge has gone already. Perhaps Boris isn't as daft as we think
