Boris wins

They cause traffic congestion.

London really does not have the roads for them; they require a huge
amount of space to turn at junctions and some of the routes are down
little more than narrow side streets.

Paging SD & Timo! Tell this man the stories you told us on the ferry
on Sunday afternoon relating to Cannon St. etc.

 

also, they're capable of "grating you to death like a piece of
cheese".

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/stand...ndy+bus+that+grated+a+man+to+death/article.do

 

They take up too much road turning tight corners. I find them a royal PITA
around York if I'm nearby on a bike/motorbike. They are utterly pointless as
a conventional double decker has many more seats.

 

*ding*

The "pay before you board" ones also confuse the living shit out of
tourists.

 

It's just an observation that often, the people who make the biggest
noise about not wasting your vote, making an carefully informed
decision, making sure you do the right thing, etc., are at the front of
the list of detractors and nay-sayers when their choice doesn't win. If
these people really had the benefit of their town/city/country/whatever
at heart then perhaps they'd be better off supporting whoever did win
instead of expending energy saying "he's a fuckwit, it's all going to
go to shit.", in which case it probably will.

Don't worry about that bit. I think it was supposed to humourous but
was lost in translation between my tiny mind and the keyboard.

 

Following on from other answers:
We had enough buses before, and they were fine. I have personally
contributed to buying these new ones for no good reason other than Ken
probably got a fucking massive backhander.

People don't pay fares on them. Hence, I, rather than they, are
personally contributing to their upkeep.

 

I don't think so, given the recent revelations about corruption with
him and the GLA. Hopefully things will get investigated more fully.

 

He did say "probably"

What exactly was wrong with double deckers anyway?
Why can't we have them on the rails as per Netherlands too.

 

It's not the "regretting" I was getting at it was the "whinging", for
want of a better term. I've observed quite a few people, IRL, banging
on about what a useless twonk he's going to be and how we're all doomed
(I don't know where all the people who actually voted for him have
gone...) It's something of a self-fulfilling prophecy - as if these
people are willing him to screw up so they can claim the glory of
saying "look, I said that would happen".

It's just a facet of human nature than confuses me a little, is all.

 

Good man.
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You want to tell people what views they may or may not express? why not
just do away with the whole sodding business.

 

Just because someone has different ideas to you doesn't make them
foolish y'know.

Phil

 

You have to pay? I'd always assumed they were free

 

of course they're free if you know how the system works.

But every time I see one stop around here, a bunch of obvious tourists
get on and try and get the driver to take money.

 

Blackpool too, they just have/had a different name.


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No I mean double decker trains, like what you get from Schipol

 

They won't fit UK tracks.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-51545,00.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilevel_car
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loading_gauge

 

but

Alastair Darling recently visited the Netherlands where he was shown the
Dutch rail network's double-decker trains. Apparently, this is now being
considered on busy commuter lines in the South-East - the cost of raising
bridges being lower than the cost of building new rail lines to cope with
massively expanding demand.

Alan Scab, London, England

 

Didn't it hurt?
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How much more suspenseful can you get?"
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It wasn't an oblique reference to you or, directly, to anyone else. I
wasn't trying to have a dig, in other words. Sorry if it came across
like that.

I do think it's interesting and rather strange that you "have no real
wish for the Tory party to succeed in anything they propose as policy"
though. Seems a little bit spiteful, does that. Surely if you don't
like the man in charge then you should be putting extra effort into
trying to ensure that he *doesn't* screw up, unless the wellbeing of
your chosen political affiliation is more important than the wellbeing
of the (in this case...) city of London.