http://www.stopboris.org/blog/2008/04/12/bashing-boris-on-buses/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:51:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://www.stopboris.org/blog/2008/04/12/bashing-boris-on-buses/#comment-321 Mr. Stop Boris Sun, 13 Apr 2008 21:19:38 +0000 http://www.stopboris.org/blog/2008/04/12/bashing-boris-on-buses/#comment-321 Which part of it is garbage? You don't mention the fact that the new buses won't be able to carry nearly as many passengers as the artics do, nor the waste of money on unnecessary conductors. Whatever the cost of the buses - and Boris should certainly have called you or anyone else with a clue before going on Newsnight where he clearly didn't have one himself - the fact remains that the idea of abolishing bendy-buses is seriously flawed and really doesn't seem to have been properly thought through. Which part of it is garbage? You don’t mention the fact that the new buses won’t be able to carry nearly as many passengers as the artics do, nor the waste of money on unnecessary conductors. Whatever the cost of the buses - and Boris should certainly have called you or anyone else with a clue before going on Newsnight where he clearly didn’t have one himself - the fact remains that the idea of abolishing bendy-buses is seriously flawed and really doesn’t seem to have been properly thought through.

]]> http://www.stopboris.org/blog/2008/04/12/bashing-boris-on-buses/#comment-320 J H Holloway Sun, 13 Apr 2008 20:09:38 +0000 http://www.stopboris.org/blog/2008/04/12/bashing-boris-on-buses/#comment-320 Garbage. I was involved in the first new-gen Routemaster project which appeared in The Times last December. It was designed by Capocco, one of the world's leading bus designers. The first prototype (which used many off-the-shelf parts) will cost £4m and take 3-4 years to develop. Each bus will cost around £220k, but will have a design life of 20 years, compared to the £120m/10 year life of crude, mild-steel belching diesel double decker. Still, Boris should have called me and I'd have given him the figures..... And any third party can't possibly estimate the costs, because the final choice of routemaster hasn't been made, regardless of Capoco's suggestions... Garbage. I was involved in the first new-gen Routemaster project which appeared in The Times last December. It was designed by Capocco, one of the world’s leading bus designers. The first prototype (which used many off-the-shelf parts) will cost £4m and take 3-4 years to develop. Each bus will cost around £220k, but will have a design life of 20 years, compared to the £120m/10 year life of crude, mild-steel belching diesel double decker.
Still, Boris should have called me and I’d have given him the figures…..
And any third party can’t possibly estimate the costs, because the final choice of routemaster hasn’t been made, regardless of Capoco’s suggestions…

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