The new Routemaster

[Mad Doug Biker]

I drive an Optare bus, me. It is an ugly looking thing, but it is enough to drive the Bus Spotters to the point of orgasm. Fekk knows what will happen when they see this one on the streets.

I think it looks ok except for those ugly headlights - fix them, paint the surrounds black, I don't care, but please, just make it look better!!

As for spotters, I can predict a lot of odd looking people, most of them middle aged men descending on London over the next few weeks/months.

 

[col]

You a bus driver too Col ?
My mate took his PSV years ago...worst decision he ever made he said, grumpy, unthankful, ungreatful, miserable b'stards he used to call the public in general.

I am, and I can understand what he says sometimes. Some can be shall we say trying?
But I must add generally they are great, it all comes down to the company you work for.

 

[gaz]

I'll probably see one in the flesh sometime this month. I cycle along it's route for around a mile.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I'll probably see one in the flesh sometime this month. I cycle along it's route for around a mile.

Tell them to fix the ugly headlights then please!!

I am, and I can understand what he says sometimes. Some can be shall we say trying?
But I must add generally they are great, it all comes down to the company you work for.

I always say 'Thanks driver' when getting off. I did this in London once and it obviously made the driver's day judging by his reaction!!

 

[Archie_tect]

You'll have to shout very loudly on one of those... do they have a conductors again?

 

[col]

You'll have to shout very loudly on one of those... do they have a conductors again?

It seems so, Im surprised as its double wages, again where is the saving?

 

[Archie_tect]

Faster service as the driver can set off straightaway so less congestion... that at least makes sense.

 

[col]

Faster service as the driver can set off straightaway so less congestion... that at least makes sense.

Ah now thats a good idea, back to the single/ double bell signal off the conductor. I still dont understand how it will save time though, drivers on their own pull away as soon as possible. After checking that people are near enough sat down, could take longer for the conductor to check both floors?

 

[Archie_tect]

The driver doesn't have to sell tickets or give change [or don't drivers do that on London buses?] so they can concentrate on the road and move off as soon as folk are on... providing they don't set off too fast + send them straight out the back!!!
lol

 

[Canrider]

There'll be a sign somewhere absolving for anyone thrown about. As an ex-pat I'd love to see bus conductors come back simply to make my summer holiday experience in 1990 no longer a throwback to some distant unremembered past, when a person with a strange metal box on a sling came and took coins in exchange for an odd piece of paper *even if you were sitting on the front of the upper deck*. Modernists take note: We did have to work out which zone our B&B was in.

 

[col]

The driver doesn't have to sell tickets or give change [or don't drivers do that on London buses?] so he can concentrate on the road and move off as soon as folk are on... providing he doesn't set off too fast + send them straight out the back!!!
lol

Ah of course, I see what you mean. But that was a surprise too, the hop on and off step at the back like the old double deckers. I thought health and safety would have something to say about that. We can be in serious trouble if we dont close the door before we move off, these dont even have a door?

 

[Archie_tect]

...+ a nice sloping ramp for super quick wheelchair disembarking.

 

[col]

...+ a nice sloping ramp for super quick wheelchair disembarking.

Nightrider style

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

providing they don't set off too fast + send them straight out the back!!!
lol

MATE!! Your bus has just followed through!!

 

[Canrider]

Nightrider style

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo8Qls0HnWo


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