No more red double-decker buses :(

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Dec 10th 2005, 5:25 am

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Re: No more red double-decker buses :(

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Dec 10th 2005, 3:02 pm

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Re: No more red double-decker buses :(

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Originally Posted by Elvira

The ones that are being retired are the ancient Routemaster buses that have an open platform at the back, with both a driver in a separate cabin, AND a conductor who takes your money (and rings the bell when the bus is ready to depart, and helps old ladies with their shopping, young mums with their buggies, and middle-aged travellers such as yours-truly with their roll-on

).

The modern double-decker buses are also red, but the they have two doors: a front entrance where you show your ticket or pass to the driver (there's no conductor), and one in the middle where you get off.

So what you're saying is.... The modern buses are just regular buses like you see everywhere else, only red and with two levels.

Well, based on that, then yes... I am going to miss the Routemaster buses that I haven't had the opportunity to take yet! I'm big on nostalgia -- even if it isn't mine!

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Dec 10th 2005, 3:18 pm

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Re: No more red double-decker buses :(

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Originally Posted by Bob

bit of a shame, but in the end, those things swayed, they stank, and those stairs sucked...so not to bothered *l*

Years ago when I was at college in Jo'burg, I'd catch one of the double decker buses. Most of them were pretty old, and I can't count the times I wondered if we were going to tip over as it went around a corner. Like the leaning tower of Pisa they were. Sitting upstairs, smoking section, was a hair raising event all on its own some days, especially if we got a youngster as a driver!

Dec 10th 2005, 3:21 pm

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Re: No more red double-decker buses :(

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Originally Posted by Jenney & Mark

So what you're saying is.... The modern buses are just regular buses like you see everywhere else, only red and with two levels.

Well, based on that, then yes... I am going to miss the Routemaster buses that I haven't had the opportunity to take yet! I'm big on nostalgia -- even if it isn't mine!

~ Jenney

This is the routemaster design, which is being retired: