Is the bendy bus the worst thing to ever hit the streets of London or what!?
I pulled away from a junction on New Oxford Street yesterday only to go about 2 meteres because a beny bus was blocking the junction! When the take a corner they swing out wide and then back the other way - they are the biggest causes of congestion that I have ever seen in my life! 
The congestion factor doesn’t bother me, it’s the “let’s squish this biker up against this roundabout/pavement/other vehicle because I can’t see what I’m doing” factor that annoys me!
That and they seem to catch fire all to easily…
Nice one Ken - got rid of the routemaster for these things…
Not such a good idea now is it you newt loving twat (allegedly)…
what about the b.buses in totenham court road? where they continuously have to swtch lanes in order to pick up passengers from the left hand side and then turn right towards king’s cross. no wonder that section of the road is always congested and an accident hotspot for bikes.
They’re bloody rubbish, what’s wrong with double deckers?
I absolutely hate them, they are bloody dangerous. Bring back the old hop on and hop off ones, I loved them, were they called routemaster?
That was them - Routemasters!!!
And Jay - Double deckers are good but they melt when you sit down on them…
Pile of sheet …they aint worth Jack !!!
I have read a report from TFL that they have realised they made a mistake introducing them to UK Cities !!!
i love the bendy buses!!!
when i was on my six month ban i had to use one from fenchurch street to holborn, and only paid three times, and that was when the inspectors jumped on!!!
but when im on the bike …GGGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
America and Japan already have fuel-cell (i.e. Hydrogen) powered buses. Why don’t we? We’re one of the richest cities in the world, yet still have these big polluting buses. Bring on a double-decker fuel-cell bus. Everyone wins.
Rhey regularlly clog Marble Arch / Glouster Place / Oxford Street junction - I have seen three of them,one behind the other going nowhere and blocking Edgware road/Marble Arch Junction too…It was like someone dumped a train along Marble Arch … grr AND watch the passengers dive for the rear doors and a free ride.
What a joke Ken is - but looks like he will get in again - if everybody does nothing about it.
well why dont you use a piollution mask like the other cyclists
I’m sort of with Charlie on this cos I’m asthmnatic which mean si coul;dn’t run for a bus, let alone ride throughtheir pollutin, but why is everyone so keen to be “up-to-date” why not just fit routemasters with catalyic converters…
Now all th emechanics have a go and tell me just how hard that would be.
Fine, but what about new clean engines for old routemasters. EVEYONE’s HAYPPY.
It smy round,
We do !
TFL have been running experimental (ie. the same as the other cities) fuel cell buses for the last couple of years.
I too loved the old Routmaster buses !
But then again I’m not disabled, elderly, or a mother with a couple of kids & a pram/push-chair, for all of whom they were a pretty cr@p option & the main reason they were de-comissioned & replaced with new ones, that have features like ramps that slide out for wheel chair access & the facility to lower the front suspension so there’s no big step up or down when getting on & off.
Guess it depends if you think public transport should be inclusive or not ?
Oh & this isn’t a defence of the bendy ones, they’re probably fine in modern cities, but in a place like London where most of the street layout was done before the the internal combustion engine existed, they’re woefully out of place.
The old Routemaster was built on a modular base so you could throw in any engine you wanted generally in half the time of any other type of bus.
Lower maintenance and easier to repair than any bus built since but no one would invest in new clean engines under the belief the EEC would ban them due to no doors.
Plus TfL seem to recruit especially psycopathic nutters to drive them (or maybe they are the only people who will?). I hate them.
Reported a 521 Bendy bus that had gone through a red light to TFL. Lo and behold, they found out who it was and gave the driver a “sever” reprimand. Wonder what that means? Party and a bonus?
I hate em and no matter how new they are they still kick out cr@p. I havent yet seen a diesel car, 4x4, lorry, bus thats new and doesnt kick out heaps of black smoke when they boot it.
yawn, i get tired of hearing cr*p about buses from people who never even blimin use them! 
we’ve had good feedback from a lot of passengers, and i get one every day that i’m not on the bike and i like it. 
and they’re more efficient thus save money. and more accessible, have space for buggies, etc. I reckon the mistake has been putting them onto routes without thinking through where they’re going to be running, not the fact that they have been introduced.
and btw all articulated vehicles swing out to make turns, so why would you not anticipate a bus doing so??
oh, and as has been said there are Hydrogen fuel cell buses running near the river, and we’re doing some more work soon to prepare for rolling them out further
