Martin Rich wrote:
One effect of the insistence on low-floor buses, whcih have really
only been the norm for double-deckers for the last ten years or so, is
that currently London has quite a young fleet of buses. About the
oldest one-person double-deckers that you see are 'S' registration,
which would have been new in 1998-9, but most are much newer than
that.

Yes. TfL achieved what has only happened once before in London: the
replacement of almost the whole fleet over 7 years. The last time was
1947-54, when most existing buses were worn out after the war.

I wonder if the current buses will last as long as the RTs and RFs did.

Colin McKenzie

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