"Tony Wilson" a@a wrote in message
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Of all the horrors of the early years of tendering in London, something
which really bugged me (out of all proportion if I'm honest!) was the
taking
away of our red buses. This was particularly true where I lived at the
time
as even the route London Buses retained were transformed into the
horrendous
Bexlybus operation. It really felt like they were taking some of our
London
heritage away, which is all the more sensitive when the Royal Mail tells
everybody you live in Kent.

So, I was delighted when Ken reversed the livery requirement and was
wondering...

1) What percentage of routes are now red liveried?
2) How long until they are all red? If an existing non-red operator, such
as
Metrobus on the 161, has modern low-floor buses and retains the route with
existing vehicles, do they have to repaint or is it only on new bus
orders?

London heritage??? We have been part of Kent for generations, and only
sucked into the Greater London experiment so the Tories could take control
of London government (well, mostly). I am sure the overwhelming majority of
residents in Bexley describe, and want to describe themselves as living in
Kent (me included). Maybe those of us in metropolitan Kent will one day
escape from the clutches of central London and determine our own affairs
without inteference.

I loathe Bexley being described as "south London", it really is NOT. We are
part of the Greater London administrative area, that's all, for all other
purposes we are people of Kent. I know "Londoners" find this hard to
believe, but many of us don't wanty to be part of your high-density
overpopulated sprawling urban gloom.

Nick