MissRiaElaine wrote:
On 01/10/2019 10:50, David Cantrell wrote:

I don't get this antipathy to the Boris buses. I'm a passenger,
frequently. They do their job well, combining the benefits of a normal
double decker with the one benefit of the bendy monstrosities - quick
boarding - without the humungous downsides of the bendies taking up too
much road space and blocking junctions.

They just look "wrong" to me. And furthermore, they are an insult to the
genuine, real Routemaster, which served London for many years and still
would to this day if not for the PC brigade.


Form followed function with the compact, light-weight, attractive, original
RM, whereas style dictated structure with the huge, heavy, expensive new
one.