On Fri, 10 Oct 2014 14:16:28 +0100
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On 10.10.14 12:50, Mizter T wrote:

On 10/10/2014 12:23, Roland Perry wrote:

In message , at 11:36:20 on
Fri, 10 Oct 2014, Paul Corfield remarked:
This nonsense of revealing snazzy "designs"
before you know if someone can deliver a working, reliable and
effectively engineered train is so reminiscent of the NB4L that it
worries me. There we have a bus that is fatally compromised

I think I'm a bit behind the times. What's the problem with them?

They've gained the nickname 'Roastmaster' during the summer months.

Are they not also haemorrhaging revenue again? That seems to be one of
the reasons they did away with the bendies.

I think that was used as an excuse. I suspect the real reason was that boris
saw an easy way to make his mark by doing so and because he was having his
ear bent by a small but vocal minority of cyclists who for some reason thought
they were the 4 horsemen of the highway, though getting rid of them hasn't
stopped natural selection weeding out the idiots at junctions via lorries.

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Spud