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Experienced the new 40 this morning! Apart from the driver not being able to operate all of his funky new gadgets properly, it was a very pleasing journey!!


How long they will stay nice is up for debate though.


One thing I do miss from the older design is the "footrest" that ran along the front few seats on the top deck on the left hand side of the bus.

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???? Wrote:

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> I presume they've got that @#$%& mindless

> commentary going on and on..



Oh yes... and not only is it as annoying as previous busses... it now seems to speak randomly at you!!!


Didn't take long for the greasy haired amongst the 40 passengers to make the windows all streaky and minging with their lovely hair products. Gross.

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SCSB79 Wrote:

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> One thing I do miss from the older design is the

> "footrest" that ran along the front few seats on

> the top deck on the left hand side of the bus.


Try sitting a bit further back on the left on the new buses - I did this morning and enjoyed the footrest which I am also a fan of!

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Sonners Wrote:

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> SCSB79 Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > One thing I do miss from the older design is

> the

> > "footrest" that ran along the front few seats

> on

> > the top deck on the left hand side of the bus.

>

> Try sitting a bit further back on the left on the

> new buses - I did this morning and enjoyed the

> footrest which I am also a fan of!



I noticed that one day when I didn't get my usual seat at the front!! Am now eighing up the options of comfort over a better view!!!! My god, I am sad!!

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solstice Wrote:

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> environmentally

> friendly.


I always have trouble with term ?environmentally friendly? would ?less environmentally damaging? be more accurate term as the former seem to imply that they are improving the environment. I?ll never make it in marketing!

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Anybody trying to travel on one of these this morning at around 8am will have witnessed a comedy of errors. First bus to arrive parked up at the Plough bus stop (rather than usual parking spot behind LL), at which point the driver got out a copy of The Sun, and then proceeded to block the bus lane inexplicably for the next 10 minutes. When the next one finally arrived, it made it as far as Moxon's before the door broke and the driver told everybody to get off.


New 40, new danger. Teething problems, I know, but I got a shoeing when I turned up late for work. :(

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