On 22 Oct, 00:08, John B wrote:
I'm deeply sceptical, although it's possible that the people you spoke
to were idiots. In real life, bendies provide a much better service
than other buses on a given route.

He did say they "weren't very popular". What he didn't say was whether
those same people thought replacing them with normal double deckers
would fix anything.

U

On Oct 22, 12:38*am, Mr Thant
wrote:
I'm deeply sceptical, although it's possible that the people you spoke
to were idiots. In real life, bendies provide a much better service
than other buses on a given route.

He did say they "weren't very popular". What he didn't say was whether
those same people thought replacing them with normal double deckers
would fix anything.

Fair point, although 'popular' only has any relevance at all when
compared to plausible alternatives (so if bendies weren't very popular
compared to, say, gold-plated Rolls-Royces, or double deckers that
weren't rammed so full you'd need to wait for three to pass before you
could get on one, then that's entirely irrelevant).

I lived in Finsbury Park when the 29 got bendified. It went from being
a route where you'd have two or more double deckers go past you in the
morning too full to stop, to a bus which - although always well-
loaded, and relatively rarely endowed with many seats - you could
still always get on. Compared to that fact, none of the other criteria
matter in the slightest.

--
John Band
john at johnband dot org
www.johnband.org

On 22 Oct, 00:47, John B wrote:
Fair point, although 'popular' only has any relevance at all when
compared to plausible alternatives

Well the comparison point is the non-bendy routes that people use,
which generally are more pleasant. The mistake is to think that the
bendy routes would suddenly be more pleasant if only they were
converted to double decker, which as you say, is not the case.

U

John B wrote:

Fair point, although 'popular' only has any relevance at all when
compared to plausible alternatives (so if bendies weren't very popular
compared to, say, gold-plated Rolls-Royces, or double deckers that
weren't rammed so full you'd need to wait for three to pass before you
could get on one, then that's entirely irrelevant).

I've often been left standing at bus stops day and night because the bendies
are so packed they don't stop. Maybe the 29 is different but the 25 has been
a much worse travelling experience since becoming a bendy.