"Colin McKenzie" wrote in message
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Harry Spencer wrote:
To me, they all seemed a bit naked without any adverts. Which got me
wondering how much lost revenue there now is from running bendy buses.
Forget running costs of the service itself, surely the lost revenue from
not
having any adverts on each side is quite some loss?

The extra costs of running bendis over Routemasters are considerable, but
many of them do not accrue to the operator. Most are due to the fact that
a bendibus weighs twice as much as a Routemaster, the rest to the facts
that it's wider and longer and has no conductor.
- extra vandalism of the bus
- extra traffic congestion
- extra fuel used
- extra damage to the road
- extra delay/danger to cyclists
- extra walking to and from bus stops

Any more?

Colin McKenzie

Christ it's like a meeting of old, crusty, whiney men in here. All cursing
the day progress was invented. It's just an old bus being replaced by a new
one. Funnily enough, the same process that brought the RM into public
service.