The New Routemaster

I don't often visit London...in fact, scratch that sentence. I haven't been to London in 10 years, but I've been keeping an eye on the kerfuffle over Boris's Buses.

Boris Johnson, the Mayor, promised to get rid of the much-loathed bendy-bus and replace it with brand new Routemasters, those old iconic statesman-like buses with the open platform at the back.

I'm sure they were much beloved by those who rode them daily in London, but personally I don't see what all the fuss is about. The only time I was on one was when Kelvin Scottish bought some to trawl the streets of Glasgow. They were quietly binned after a while.

(And believe it or not, one of my colleagues owns this monstrosity!):

But how do you update the Routemaster design without losing some of the iconic features? Well, as it turns out, you don't. You design a bus with three doors, keep the back door open, and pass it off as a Routemaster. 853 goes into more detail but is similarly unimpressed.



Still, anything that gets more people using public transport is a good thing in my book, so hopefully it will get a couple of people out of their cars.