Bendy buses

Pete. · Super Spammer Joined: 22 Aug 2006 Karma :

Has anyone else noticed that these road-hogging beasts-of-Ken are no longer producing steam? It's been months since I've seen the kettle boiling out the top of one, perhaps longer.

I bet they are all running on diesel now - so much for them being heavily-touted as emission-free eh?
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The Tot · World Chat Champion Joined: 11 Jun 2004 Karma :

I thought that the non-bendy mercedes centaro's or whatever were H2 powered? I used to see them on the strand all the time. I can't remember the bus route... it was the one that went from The Strand/Aldwych to Tower Hill? Either way, come 2011, they'll be gone and replaced with them new futuristic routemasters.
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https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7681914.stm

bendy buses ruin my life
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moog · Spanner Monkey Joined: 10 Jul 2005 Karma :

Boris said on Top Gear that they'd all be gone by 2011...as Titz pointed out earlier.

Not that I care...living in rural Norfolk means I have no contact with bendy busses...just tractors and horse shit!
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hellkat · Super Spammer Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Karma :

I never even noticed they steamed in the first place Shocked

I just noticed they got/get in the way. I managed to sneak down the side of one the other day in Trafalgar Square, without getting squished - mind you, I WAS in the car ... still, I was quite pleased, felt very smug getting the better of a bendy bus.
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Pete. · Super Spammer Joined: 22 Aug 2006 Karma :

Bendies are easy to defeat in heavy traffic if they are 'bent', drive/ride up alongside them and get to the bend then stop. They can't move without running you over.

Ok, the plan has disadvantages and it safer executed in a car than on a bike......
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CRF_Rider · Spanner Monkey Joined: 07 Nov 2008 Karma :

there all over in York. But considering how heavily congested it is they are pretty much on time its amazing.
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TheDonUK · World Chat Champion Joined: 20 Feb 2006 Karma :

The buses make sense in a freeky deeky dutch/australian road train sorta way.

If you have miles and miles of straight roads, fine, its just london does not...

What is it with marble arch and the bendy busses, they skip out the bottom of the roundabout and just as the lights go green for traffic coming off edgeware road there is ALWAYS a bendy bus that shoots out blocking all 8 lanes of traffic... Twisted Evil

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Pete. · Super Spammer Joined: 22 Aug 2006 Karma :

Same at Aldgate...
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NiteMare · Spanner Monkey Joined: 12 Sep 2008 Karma :

i don't care who makes them, how they are powered and who thinks we need them ....

the fookers take up too much room and usually appear to be carrying far too few passengers here in Brum Evil or Very Mad

rolling fookin traffic jams Evil or Very Mad

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Thom · World Chat Champion Joined: 24 Oct 2007 Karma :

What's a bendy bus Wink

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