Campaign for New Routemaster Buses on E Dulwich routes

[Jakido]

Any suggestions on how we make sure the Boris buses (that we are buying) run on east dulwich routes?

My vote would be for the 185 given the impending reduction of Denmark hill-Victoria trains.

A short background article : http://www.metro.co.uk/news/912712-london-to-get-600-new-boris-buses-but-taxpayers-will-foot-the-160m-bill

[Michael Palaeologus]

Well, if we are going to pay for the things, we might as well get some.

[jim_the_chin]

You are kidding; the 185 is sheer luxury compared to the skanky 176s. And they could cruise past trafalgar square, pleasing the tourists.

[the-e-dealer]

63 + 12 please

[Asset]

The 12 was always an old routemaster so maybe that route will get one.

[RosieH]

Please, just don't call them Boris buses. I may have to blow my brains out.

[tfwsoll]

The 12 route has new buses?

My vote goes to the 176.

[Townleygreen]

176 for me too, that route has the worst buses in the known universe

[James Barber]

176 gets my votes and as they go all the way to Tottenham Court Road suspect Boris would be delighted.

I'll ask GLA Assembly Member Carolne Pidgeon who knows our area exceptionally well how they'll be allocated.

[mamafeelgood]

They're not that nice to actually travel on. Rather like being stuck in an old pillar box.

[the-e-dealer]

The 12 was a bendy and is now a standard double decker. It needs the 3 door bus.

[James Barber]

Hi the-e-dealer,

But the buses are nearly brand new so no chance of being replaced so soon. Blimey you do want ot be profligate with tax payers hard earny cash.

[Otta]

The fact that people feel that "they" are paying, so "their" area should have them is funny.

If any route gets one, I would like to see the 12 get it. Not that I have been on a 12 in the last few years, but it was one of the last route master routes. And the 36.

[Jessie]

176 my vote too, purely selfish reasons as i get that one into the office

[the-e-dealer]

No-one is proposing scrapping any buses. Unlike the huge loss made by retiring the bendy buses.

[Earl Aelfheah]

The new 'routemasters' are awful. Please, no campaigning.

[edcam]

rahrahrah Wrote:

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> The new 'routemasters' are awful. Please, no

> campaigning.

I agree. If there was a campaign to reinstate the old routemasters I'd sign up but the new ones are nothing special at all. I'd rather they concentrate on a better service to be honest.

[Bobby P]

176 routemaster! Yes, would like that.

[titch juicy]

the-e-dealer Wrote:

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> No-one is proposing scrapping any buses. Unlike

> the huge loss made by retiring the bendy buses.

this

and the horrendous amount of money spent developing these new routemasters- double hit on the bus fares

way to go boris- thank god your tenure is about more than just vanity projects

[Jakido]

I'm hoping the extra door and extra staircase (and the conductor if there is one) will improve the service, since less time will be spent at each stop. I've not yet been on one though, so don't know whether this is the case.

[tfwsoll]

I would campaign against the old Routemasters. They were a design classic but the seats were tiny and getting onto the platform was only for the fully mobile. I used to catch the old 12 for the whole route and on an almost daily basis the conductor would tell the driver to stop the engine because too many people had crammed on and no-one would would get off or there was an argument over fares.

[Townleygreen]

I think the new Routemaster should be called the Borismaster!

(I'm a sad b*stard)

[Michael Palaeologus]

Magister Borisum. Surely?

[Bic Basher]

176 or the 12 personally, although some of the buses used on the 185 are at least 10 years old as they were around from the London Easylink era of operation (They did briefly dissapear when Easylink went bust and every bus company in London including Arriva's sightseeing operation covered the route until East Thames Buses took over) and now running out of Go-Ahead/London Central's Camberwell garage.

[the-e-dealer]

17 million for new fence in leicester square