The new London buses

[PokerTime]

An ordinary coach Jeremy costs 300k+. That's is the price for everyone. Heavy commercial vehicles are expensive to build, whether it's a combined harvester or a HGV lorry or a train. We are not overpaying for these buses.

I guess there are vehicles that come to the end of their useable service every year, so you would expect new buses to be bought to replace them every few years. Buses, like cars, the older they get, the more they cost to maintain, and the more they break down - so it makes economic sense to replace vehicles at some point.

Transport is expensive. That's why much of it is state subsidised.

[MarkE]

Otta Wrote:

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> But I think I am the one person in London that

> rather liked the bendy buses.

Add me to the list. Thought they were much better, though I accept there were some routes better suited to a shorter vehicle.

[Otta]

Yeah, they were defo not good for narrow roads, but going down Old Kent Road and through New Cross / Deptford they were great.

[Bic Basher]

I hated the bendy buses, they were nothing more than cattle trucks, crime hotspots and a fare fiddlers paradise.

The new buses which I've rode a few times now, I'm still undecided. Like the fact they have a conductor type person on board during the day, but not at weekends and the temperature control is a bit on and off.