"Colin McKenzie" wrote in message
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The only valid reason for withdrawing RMs now is if they are falling
apart. Actually some may be, but all of them?

They've mostly had three new heads and two new handles. TfL have decided
that payment off-bus is the way to go, and that the benefits of the
articulated single-decker are speed of loading, ease of access, and very
high crush capacity.

The RM and its clones have to have a conductor to supervise boarding and
getting off, even if fares are paid off-bus, and the lower deck has a
limited capacity, because people won't climb the stairs. Keep enough of them
for a tourist free-service along Oxford Street, and get rid of the rest of
them.
--
Terry Harper, Web Co-ordinator, The Omnibus Society
75th Anniversary 2004, see http://www.omnibussoc.org/75th.htm
E-mail:
URL: http://www.terry.harper.btinternet.co.uk/