what's wrong with bendy busses!??!?!?!?

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Bendy busses are well cool! I mean, if it's driver aggro, surely it's the same on a regular bus than a bendy bus.. They hold more people, they have better disabled access and they are BENDY!

― ken c, Tuesday, 18 November 2003 13:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Did you even BOTHER READING THE THREAD?!?!?

― Citizen Kate (kate), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 13:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I love bendy buses.

Kate's had too much coffee. I haven't had enough. There is a coffee gradiant.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 13:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I did! I gathered that YOUHATETHEMYOUHATETHEMYOUHATETHEM but I couldn't see the bit that told of the reason. I think I need more coffee.

― ken c, Tuesday, 18 November 2003 13:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I haven't had enough coffee either!

Bendy Busses DO NOT WORK on a narrow medieval street plan such as London. Also, they take up TWICE THE ROOM at bus stops, so your "twice the passengers" ratio is achieved at allowing only half the busses at a busstop.

― Citizen Kate (kate), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 13:25 (twenty-two years ago)

But do you not feel the love that is bendy streetcars?

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 13:27 (twenty-two years ago)

i'd be lucky if more than one bus arrives at a time!

I still prefer double deckers just because I get to sit on the top deck and feel tall. If they make bendy double deckers then we're talking!

― ken c, Tuesday, 18 November 2003 13:31 (twenty-two years ago)

the feeble lameness of mere *horizontally* bendy buses is proven by science on the other thread

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 13:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Triple decker, bendy, 45 degree leaning, wheelie-ing buses NOW. Nobody will need coffee in the morning because their journey to work will have afforded them enough adrenalin to keep them going for at least 9 hours.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 13:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Triple decker busses would be great!

In America, they have double decker TRAINS!!! But unfortunately they are only allowed to drive them West of the Mississippi and certain parts of DC because they can't fit them through the tunnels. :-(

― Citizen Kate (kate), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 13:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha. Slight design flaw then.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 13:41 (twenty-two years ago)

More bendy Streetcar goodness

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 13:42 (twenty-two years ago)

i want my buses to also turn into a robot every now and then, and fight the evil forces of the decepticons.

― ken c, Tuesday, 18 November 2003 13:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Wow, does putting a hardreturn in a href tag ever cause ILX to kill a kitten.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 13:43 (twenty-two years ago)

This is still not the tram thread, Noodles, and you need to edit that final < br > out of the URL...

It would be better if they could JOIN BUSSES TOGETHER the way they do train cars. Then busses could be as long or as short as needed!

― Citizen Kate (kate), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 13:44 (twenty-two years ago)

does *every* Ken have the urge to completely revolutionise public transport?!

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 13:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I get bus-sick so it's probably best that my bus to work doesn't bend or otherwise deviate. I wish I still worked somewhere I could walk to.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 13:46 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.actiontreasurehunts.co.uk/images/red%20london%20bus.jpg

― Before, Tuesday, 18 November 2003 13:46 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.sit.wisc.edu/~spkraus1/catalyst/misc/transformers/prime.jpg

― After, Tuesday, 18 November 2003 13:47 (twenty-two years ago)

suicide bomb THAT

― ken c, Tuesday, 18 November 2003 13:48 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.metrolink.co.uk/IMAGES/new%20look%20tram%201.jpg

― Dave B (daveb), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 13:48 (twenty-two years ago)

the same reason there are no double decker trains in the UK, the only line built to the Berne guage now gathers dust despite efforts to revive it. Incidentally there was one attempt to do double decker on the Southern Region, T shaped compartments with a common corridor. It looked like this:

http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~gsgleaves/4ddbw.jpg

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 13:48 (twenty-two years ago)

That doesn't look very double decker to me. Are you sure you've not pasted in a cattle van by mistake?

― Citizen Kate (kate), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 13:51 (twenty-two years ago)

It was not popular

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 13:55 (twenty-two years ago)

So unpopular a mob attacked it and knocked its upper deck off?

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 13:59 (twenty-two years ago)

no, they rocked its upper deck off

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 14:00 (twenty-two years ago)

::snargle::

― Citizen Kate (kate), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 14:02 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.gotransit.com/public/aboutgo/trainoverdvp.jpg
Double decker Toronto train (and just a bus).

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 14:04 (twenty-two years ago)

those giants are going nowhere unless they build their road across the dwarf highway.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 14:05 (twenty-two years ago)

ACK!!! Those look like giant stringbeans attacking the city! Bizarre!

― Citizen Kate (kate), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 14:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I mean, erm, Mange-Touts. (Kate in bean-pea-vegetable mix-up shocka!)

― Citizen Kate (kate), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 14:10 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.citebc.ca/ITEBRO1A.gif
Its a popular shot, what can I say.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 14:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Did they think that painting them green would make them look more "Green" and less obtrusive, rather than making them look like GIANT PLANT ALIENS EATING TORONTO?!?!?

― Citizen Kate (kate), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 14:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Well its was the 70s when they chose that colour, so it probably was the ugliest colour they could think of back then.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 14:17 (twenty-two years ago)

What, Brown and Orange wasn't available?

― Citizen Kate (kate), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 14:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Brown and Orange would be too cool for a government orginaziation in the 70s.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 14:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I think they are nice!

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 14:24 (twenty-two years ago)

They are nice, and cheap! Their just communter trains but they still have bathrooms, tables and power outlets. The buses have this ability to look like shit but still be instant sleep. Beaverton to Newmarket = most boring bus ride EVAH! Though Beaverton to Oshawa might be a close second.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 14:43 (twenty-two years ago)

On the continent they have double decker trains too. And bendy busses with 3 segments (and 2 bendy bits!).

How cool is that?

― mei (mei), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 14:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Toronto was gazumped by BR south Easter div

http://www.therailwaycentre.com/EMU%20photo%20file/411_Jaffa

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 14:58 (twenty-two years ago)

brown, orange, yellow, blue and grey? That train is styling.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 15:06 (twenty-two years ago)

That train has worse fashion sense than Gareth with a hangover!

― Citizen Kate (kate), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 15:08 (twenty-two years ago)

they smell pretty bad in summer.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 18:09 (twenty-two years ago)

this thread is sorely lacking in articulated bus pix!

http://www.trackwalker.ca/Autos/OCartic.jpg

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 18:38 (twenty-two years ago)

That has got to be a bad bendy bus, I'll admit it's foreshortened but the front portion looks way shorter than the rear.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 18:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Bendy buses are great! They fit more people = good. WTF...

well, unless you're sitting in the bendy part itself and you're feeling off that day.

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 18:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I want to ride a bus that looks like this! The CTA bendy buses have better fashion sense than the normal buses (brown and yellow stripes on the side instead of red and blue) and plush leather interiors, but they still choke me with carbon monoxide.

― Sarah Pedal (call mr. lee), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 18:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I stand corrected. What happened to this thing anyway?

― Sarah Pedal (call mr. lee), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 18:52 (twenty-two years ago)

This is my bendy bus!
http://www.doigscoach.fsnet.co.uk/bendy.htm

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 18:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Arse. Try this

http://www.doigscoach.fsnet.co.uk/bendy.htm

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 18:58 (twenty-two years ago)

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Sob. I miss my TVGoHome book...

― Dave B (daveb), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 14:11 (twenty-one years ago)

They have been, offroaded/withdrawn that is..

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 14:12 (twenty-one years ago)

For some reason, the words 'rigid buses' seem so right together.

― Dave B (daveb), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 14:12 (twenty-one years ago)

They have been taken off the road and recalled, that was the point of the story!

Rigid busses. Yeah. I wonder if they're going to get the old Routemasters out of mothballs to take up the slack... that would make me happy!

― Psycho Kate (kate), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 14:14 (twenty-one years ago)

The solution is to be...

Mendy bendy buses.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 14:16 (twenty-one years ago)

funny how the rest of Europe doesn't seem to have this problem

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Articulated Speech of the Heart

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 15:10 (twenty-one years ago)

There was a Routemaster on fire at Angel today, so they might not be the answer either.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 15:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh no, we'll all have to take the MONORAIL...

― Psycho Kate (kate), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Routemasters are more fuel effiecnt and more fuel efficient per passenger than any of the other london buses.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 15:16 (twenty-one years ago)

BUT NOT WHEN THEY'RE ON FIRE, ED!!!

― Psycho Kate (kate), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 15:17 (twenty-one years ago)

they burn more economically as well

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 15:17 (twenty-one years ago)

At least you can jump off

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Tragically, we will see lots of routemasters turned into wanky concept furniture when they they are decommissioned, which will leave me looking at them going 'I remember when they were actually modes of transport' like you get with red telephone boxes. The one upside is that in about 2 years, we'll be able to have a FAP on a converted routemaster which has been turned into a bar.

― Dave B (daveb), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 15:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Dave B in Doctor Who shockah!

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)

To be fair to the old Routemasters, they have been on the road for FORTY YEARS NOW.

And aren't very disabled friendly. If LT through about devolping a DF routemaster we'd all be happy. Right?

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 15:41 (twenty-one years ago)

iirc a law was passed in the early 1970s prohibiting bus companies from building their own vehicles and as no-one was building buses for 2 person operation anymore LT had to lump it and buy buses "off the shelf".

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 15:49 (twenty-one years ago)

.. thats a ruddy big mantelpiece..

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 15:51 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.sd455.com/moviebigbus2.jpg

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)

On the way home from work a few days ago, I walked past a bendy bus that had just jumped a curb and taken out a fire hydrant. Apparently when you take out a fire hydrant, water does not come shooting out of the ground like it does in the movies. It just kinda bubbles up. Who knew?

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 16:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe it's a defence mechanism for when it catches fire. It just drives into a fire hydrant.

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)

five months pass...

9, 73, 390

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 4 September 2004 15:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I HATE BENDY BUSES!

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 4 September 2004 15:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I read about the Routemaster 73's passing today. Sad times. What's left? Are the 12 and 38 still going?

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 4 September 2004 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)

i hate bendy buses. riding the 73 on the top deck used to be one of my favourite london journeys. now it sucks. i think the 38 is the only one left :-(

― pete b. (pete b.), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 09:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't like sitting in the seat right next to the bendy bit because your feet end up half on and half off the rotating floor and it gets annoying to have to keep moving your toes.

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 09:11 (twenty-one years ago)

38, 19, 12 are all left, plus i saw several other ones on my journey south from elephant to dulwich and crystal palace.

i don't like bendy busses, either. i understand the arguments against the routemasters, but none of them apply to me, and i'm selfish.

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 09:18 (twenty-one years ago)

159 is still a Routemaster. Sigh.

― Danger Whore (kate), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 09:32 (twenty-one years ago)

How can anyone dislike bendy-buses? You're living in the past, man! The future is bendy.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 09:43 (twenty-one years ago)

bendy buses are satan's transport.

― emsk, Wednesday, 15 September 2004 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

it must be good if even satan rides them when he could have just flown.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)

you're getting him mixed up with Santa.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 14:57 (twenty-one years ago)

seriously. they're just TOO FUCKING LONG. you try having one belching past you when you're on a bike, they last forfuckingever. and the capability for death-inducing tailspin, especially when turning corners, doesn't bear thinking about. they are hell on wheels. give me a routemaster any day.

― emsk, Wednesday, 15 September 2004 15:05 (twenty-one years ago)

yay, Ems, we are the sisterhood of bendybushatred!

― Danger Whore (kate), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

they are Putting People First

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 15:07 (twenty-one years ago)

the thing about Routemasters, the only true appeal, is that when you see them and step on them and hear that engine chuggling you feel like you're stepping back on and off another era. ala steam trains and what have you. but such things are not meant to last. i don't suppose you could attach such romance to the Bendies tho.

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 15:10 (twenty-one years ago)

bollocks, when we're all whizzing round in flying buses our great-grandchildren will be gawping in amazement at the odd bus which actually has wheels in the Covent Garden Museum.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, things like buses that bend sounds like exactly that kind of things that would be seen as an endearing "quirk of the old days" things.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 15:17 (twenty-one years ago)

one advantage of bendy buses (for bus pass owners) is that you can legitimately enter the bus through ALL THREE SETS OF DOORS!! No more waiting for the retard in front of you looking for his fucking pound coin in his pocket for 2 minutes blocking the entrance while you dangle half in and half out of the bus waiting.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, but are all those doors open all the time? Build 21st century routemasters plz!

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Bendy buses are just wrong. Yet, I'm more concerned with fighting the West London tram.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah that'd be awesome! maybe get rid of the exterior walls altogether and just have a platform that people jump on and off from!!

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Can you imagine the lawsuits?

― Danger Whore (kate), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)

and for wheelchair access have a ramp at the back that they can get on while the bus is moving, italian job style.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 15:25 (twenty-one years ago)

maybe you could have a vehicle made of some blancmange like substance that you push your way into and it would close up behind you so once you were in you would actually have to apply force to get out again, but it would still allow you to enter at any point.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 15:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe the streets should just be lined with toilet paper like in that advert, and then it wouldn't matter if we fell off the bendy busses...

― Danger Whore (kate), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 15:26 (twenty-one years ago)

In the future, with VR retinal and cochleal implants, you'll be able to choose what the transport looks and sounds like anyway - just set to 'Retro'.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 15:34 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

this thread is much more fun.

i think at some point they should re-brand as the "TRENDY BUS"

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 9 March 2006 12:10 (twenty years ago)

that'd put some butts in seats (or some feet on floor)

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 9 March 2006 12:11 (twenty years ago)

In America, they have double decker TRAINS!!! But unfortunately they are only allowed to drive them West of the Mississippi and certain parts of DC because they can't fit them through the tunnels. :-(

-- Citizen Kate (masonicboo...), November 18th, 2003.

I don't know if anyone responded to this yet, but if so, FORGIVE ME!!!

In Chicago (and environs) the Metra transit system has double decker trains. Yep. OK. See ya later.

― unclejessjess (unclejessjess), Friday, 10 March 2006 02:47 (twenty years ago)

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