Robert Woolley wrote to uk.transport.london on Tue, 28 Jun 2005:

RMs are pretty much museum pieces for modern operation. This is just
clarifying the position....

I can quite understand why, but it's a pity - they give a far better
ride quality (in my opinion) than more modern buses do.

And it seems like only yesterday that Ken Livingstone was banging on
about bringing them back, and now he is getting rid of them.
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