| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:How might the cuts to TfL affect W4 ?? | |
| Posted by: | Thomas Barry | |
| Date/Time: | 07/11/08 23:12:00 |
| How many is 'loads'? Enough to pay for all the conductors? As it happens, two of the first three routes to debendify have among the lowest fraud rates on the network, so by your reckoning shouldn't we keep them? They don't catch fire 'easy', there was a problem with carbon build up in the exhausts *on one model* *four years ago* which was fixed, as these things are, by the manufacturer. This is nothing to do with the articulation and therefore no reason to phase them out. In any case, other cities in Britain run them, there are several manufacturers producing them and they're now even made in Northern Ireland. Since those are private operators making commercial decisions there's not a lot anyone can do about them, not that I see anyone trying. Virtually everything you read in the Evening Standard on buses is untrustworthy, because Andrew Gilligan is untrustworthy. And they don't kill cyclists, either. They're just a big bus that moves lots of people cheaply and efficiently, and that's the truth. |