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Jeremy Wrote:

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> I was just surprised that someone was getting a

> bus from near London Bridge back to East Dulwich.

> Although the train is pretty inconvenient after

> 8pm.


I am truly sorry to cause you such consternation Jeremy, but on this occasion it was probably too late for me to have time to buy a ticket and catch the last train :)

Today's evening standard has an article about the New Routemasters and the two designs that won first prize... sadly they only won a prize and it is not 100% certain that they will be the final design


http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23605116-details/Mayor+unveils+winning+designs+for+Routemaster/article.do


However maybe in 3 years time (I know it will flash by like a trip on a No 40) we will end up with decent hybrid busses and conductors again.

Brendan Wrote:

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> @#$%& hybrids. What we need are high performance

> buses with highly trained drivers that can get the

> No.12 from Westminster to Dulwich Library in under

> 15 minutes.



When we used to have Routemasters and Nightbuses, I was actually on a night bus that did just that... two stops, Elephant and Castle to let one passenger of and Dulwich Library to let the rest of the shaken and suddenly sober ones off...


Quite quite scary but the fastest bus ride from London I have ever been on...

  • 4 weeks later...

Is it just me, or do the busses seem much better this year so far...


up to Christmas i often used to have to watch a couple of full busses fly past - but since the new year, they seem more frequent and much easier to get on. (i get on opposite Lucas)


Anyone else noticed?

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