London Banter - View Single Post - Routemaster heritage route contracts awarded

Colin Rosenstiel · September 12th 05, 11:54 AM posted to uk.transport.london

In article .com,
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Colin (both of you!), maybe they do mean 3 spares per route, but that
is not actually what the press release says. Perhaps I am just being
too pedantic.

That being so, a 60% "spare" capacity for a bus route must be a World
record! Or are they just being realistically pessimistic as to the poor
maintenance (as sadly seen so often on the remaining Routemasters) that
is to be expected, and that 3 out of the 5 buses can be expected to
break down on each route every day?!

Or need to be off the road for maintenance, yes. It's not as if they don't have the spare buses after all. Presumably some will be cannibalised too.

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Colin Rosenstiel