Robin9 wrote:
y;149428 Wrote:
On Tue, 21 Jul 2015 09:52:48 +0100
Paul Corfield wrote:-
The allegations include

a) brake / handbrake problems.
b) slow acceleration meaning risk of misjudging moves into traffic.
c) the electrical system failing meaning loss of steering control -
this has happened umpteen times.

http://tinyurl.com/oha9v7v
e-boris-bus/-

I might be more inclined to believe what he said if he got some basic
facts
right.

"The fact that they cannot operate on their electric motors because of
battery
failure"

They're serial hybrids, the electric motors are the only things turning
the
wheels. The diesel engine is a generator.

"Some buses disengage from gears"

What gears? Does he mean it comes out of drive mode?

“The most unreliable and poorly engineered bus that has ever been
made”

Obviously this guy has a short memory. When boris buses start
spontainiously
bursting into flames then perhaps he might have a point.

Who wrote this - oh Mr Wolmar, a well known source of unbiased
commentary.
*cough*

--
Spud

Mr. Wolmar was recently on Venessa Feltz's phone-in programme on BBC
Radio
London. He made a fool of himself and came across as a gormless bigot.

For example, on the question of Council Housing (or whatever euphemism
they're using this month) he maintained that the only reason houses were
not
being built in large numbers in London was the hostility of Tory
controlled local
authorities. When Venessa Feltz pointed ou that local authorities not
controlled by the Tories were also not building houses he denied the
assertion. When she reminded him that many Council Leaders had told her

- and of course her "lovely listeners" - that the reason they were not
building
them was the "right-to-buy" legislation, he insisted that was not true!

He was similarly bigoted on the subject of cars. Anyone who votes for
such a
mindless muppet deserves all they get.

He's certainly very anti-car, so much so that he refuses to use them in his
endless campaign to become Labour mayoral candidate. It's completely
dominated his life for the last year, and it's made him more and more left
wing as he tries to appeal to local constituency activists.

I can't imagine what he has to offer them that the other candidates, all
experienced London MPs, can't, but failing to do so probably makes him
increasingly desperate and eccentric. It also means he has little time to
keep up with his former specialist subject, transport.

And, of course, next year, when he's no longer a would-be politician, he
won't have a new railway book to promote.