The bendy (a.k.a. articulated) buses were not going to work everywhere. We have them here in Westchester County, NY and they have been successful. Some routes in New York City have bendy buses. They probably would have worked in London if they weren't used for routes that go into the central city where the streets are narrow and the turns are sharp.
"Bendy buses" identical to these Mercedes Citaros operate perfectly well in Istanbul, Turkey, and despite also built with three doors, fare evasion is NOT an issue ! Says something about some London folk ? 😂😂
Withdrawing the bendy buses was the biggest mistake London did. Imagine how much more capacity and how much faster the 18 would be with bendy buses! The multiple doors thing is fine honestly. Sure people might fare evade but tfl can easily get some revenue control officers to stop this issue. In loads of European cities they have a use all doors to board policy to reduce dwell times.
The main problem was that the London streets were too awkward for them. I've seen them get stuck myself and it would cost more to get people to stand in the buses and force people to pay. It was a cool bus, but it just couldn't work. These new-generation double-deckers we're getting do the job well.
@@ricardotella1864 I know loads of European cities with very awkward streets yet bendies do fine there. I think its just the UK's lack of knowledge about bendy buses which make them question them.
@@ricardotella1864 Londons roads are too awkward for double deckers. I can’t believe it-but some of the bridges are too short for them. Overall double deckers were cool buses but they just don’t fit London’s streets
I was coming home once and had an apparition! I thought I saw a bendy bus on the Isle of Wight!!!! But reality came in and I found out I was not dreaming. I have no idea who ever thought it a good idea, but they were here for a short time. Our local newspaper, The County Press, had a great cartoon drawer. I mentioned this to him and he did a superb cartoon of bendy buses on the Island all tied in knots on our tiny winding roads.
These Citaro C1s are prone to engine fires. We had somewhere around 40 of the ex-Dutch C1G’s at Arriva Råsta (Stockholm northern suburbs) from 2012 til’ they were scrapped in 2019.
Some of those bendy buses were sent over to us in Malta in 2011 and I remember they did quite bad here too. I still remember them awaiting scrap near my town, last time I saw one of those in Malta was the front piece of a bendy bus on a trailer
If the bendy buses weren't removed altogether but instead relocated to other busy routes while the New Routemasters replaced them, we would be having hybrid and electric bendy buses by now.
Bendy buses still run, they even have some new ones at Stansted mostly for long-stay and also to move passengers from remote stands to the terminal building
I have never travelled on a bendy bus but watching them go past along a bumpy road I can only imagine how uncomfortable they are for those right at the back being jostled up and down until you're sick!
The 'bendy' buses have now been replaced by a fleet of fifteen former Go Ahead London Volvo B9TL/Wright Gemini 2 double-deckers. The final 'bendy' buses ran in service on Monday 31st October 2022 but a final 'farewell' was arranged by the company on Monday 7th November 2022
The only reason the route masters were taken out was disability laws allowing everyone the right to be able to travel. The bendy buses were not built for the tight streets around the bank area central London . Londoners called them the free bus due to middle doors and back doors never paid to travel.
Yep. The thing I hate about the most of Citaro's (glad they are gone for over a decade now here in my city in The Netherlands). They just had that tendency to 'resonate' after taking a speed-bump or bridge, which was even felt badly when you were sitting close to the front of the bus. That, besides the annoying and slightly deafening hum from the engine did not make me favour these buses at all. But ah well... the Scania Omnilinks were (and still are) an even bigger disaster. The VDL Ambassadors we had were better, but Arriva had chosen for the worst possible doorsystem (sliding doors) that malfunctioned A LOT... When EBS took over, I was not happy to see they had chosen Scania Omnilinks AGAIN... Thank god those are now also becoming a thing of the past and will probably be gone in a few years to come.
In all honesty, I can not understand why these buses have had so much trouble in London. I have driven them without any trouble for almost 15 years in and around Utrecht in the Netherlands. There are narrow corners and roads as well, but: when a 12 metre bus fits the 18 metre Mercedes bendy bus can take the same corner, including pretty tight ones. I liked to drive them because they are very comfortable. In Switserland they use them to serve lines on mountain roads, including hairpin bends, so I am not joking.... However, their most serious weak point is an overheated engine: engine fires are not a rare event with Mercedes buses. I like to think "it is part of their identity...". And that is a serious problem in London as traffic often comes into "slow motion mode". I wonder have there been 12 metre non-bended buses from Mercedes in London? And when so, was engine fire also a problem with those?
To be honest though, I'd rather see the rear-axle steering again on articulated buses. The Duvedec's and MB200's did such a great job in navigating even very tight corners just because the rear end basically pushed itself into the corner as well. The modern low-floor buses all lack this (except on the Van Hool double articulated ones of course, but it's a necessity on those) and since their introduction, buses in tight turns now have to wait for eachother to pass, or have to do a more careful approach, where they would be able to pass eachother without a hassle in the past.
@@geraldwagner8739Maybe the operator that used them here from 2006-2012 was well aware of this problem, because I can't remember hearing anything about a real problem with these (at least I can't remember a significant higher amount of fires with these buses compared to the others (VDL Ambassadors and Scania Omnilinks, which we had both in non-articulated and articulated version, while the Citaro's were found articulated only and the Ambassadors were non-articulated only by design.
@@weeardguy The modern bendy busses lack the rear-axle steering because the huge majority of them are pushers. That means that the third axle is the drive axle.
Than you also have never been to the Waterland (The Netherlands) area ;) . The buslane from Purmerend to Amsterdam crosses over many small bridges that connect to the North-Holland Canal. The Citaro's Arriva used to have all had the same tendency to kind of resonate after taking such a bridge, leading to an annoyingly violent triple shake, even when sat at the front part of the bus.
I swore i saw a citaro Gs at city airport in 2017. They definitely wasnt london ones but i think they were some sort of airport shuttle thing like the former luton shuttle buses
Abut 2007 The bending buses were scrapped in glasgow They kept a couple on just breaking down But I think that all going now First ' Stagecoach ' MGILLS 2022 R.I.P I think that was the last date
Funny old world, Bristol bought some of London's bendy buses when they were deemed as much use as a chocolate fireguard, And guess what they were the same down here, another waste of local public money, god know who's got them now?
forgot to mention abt the ex glasgow wright fusions but whatever enjoy
i love fusions sm
There's one failed bus you forgot the trailer bus
We makin it out of Brixton with this one 🔥🔥🔥🔥🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️
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Nah City of London🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥
Top 5 real brexits occurred at London:
@@TrainsAndBusesAroundNELondon25 I already joked about London Bridge on lean and bop extended, so I had to joke about a different location instead
The bendy (a.k.a. articulated) buses were not going to work everywhere. We have them here in Westchester County, NY and they have been successful. Some routes in New York City have bendy buses. They probably would have worked in London if they weren't used for routes that go into the central city where the streets are narrow and the turns are sharp.
"Bendy buses" identical to these Mercedes Citaros operate perfectly well in Istanbul, Turkey, and despite also built with three doors, fare evasion is NOT an issue ! Says something about some London folk ? 😂😂
Withdrawing the bendy buses was the biggest mistake London did. Imagine how much more capacity and how much faster the 18 would be with bendy buses! The multiple doors thing is fine honestly. Sure people might fare evade but tfl can easily get some revenue control officers to stop this issue. In loads of European cities they have a use all doors to board policy to reduce dwell times.
The main problem was that the London streets were too awkward for them. I've seen them get stuck myself and it would cost more to get people to stand in the buses and force people to pay.
It was a cool bus, but it just couldn't work. These new-generation double-deckers we're getting do the job well.
@@ricardotella1864 I know loads of European cities with very awkward streets yet bendies do fine there. I think its just the UK's lack of knowledge about bendy buses which make them question them.
@@ricardotella1864 Londons roads are too awkward for double deckers. I can’t believe it-but some of the bridges are too short for them. Overall double deckers were cool buses but they just don’t fit London’s streets
they put them on some routes that it didnt suit, there are many routes that could benefit that dont go through central london
@@ricardotella1864TFL should’ve done a better job at assigning the routes for the bendy buses then
I loved the bendy buses, they were awesome, I used to have bendy bus toys and everything.
I've got 3 Mercedes-Benz Bendy Buses as models toys. #LoveBendyBuses.
Yeah I completely forgot they existed until this came up in my recommended
I was coming home once and had an apparition! I thought I saw a bendy bus on the Isle of Wight!!!!
But reality came in and I found out I was not dreaming. I have no idea who ever thought it a good idea, but they were here for a short time. Our local newspaper, The County Press, had a great cartoon drawer. I mentioned this to him and he did a superb cartoon of bendy buses on the Island all tied in knots on our tiny winding roads.
These Citaro C1s are prone to engine fires. We had somewhere around 40 of the ex-Dutch C1G’s at Arriva Råsta (Stockholm northern suburbs) from 2012 til’ they were scrapped in 2019.
Some of those bendy buses were sent over to us in Malta in 2011 and I remember they did quite bad here too. I still remember them awaiting scrap near my town, last time I saw one of those in Malta was the front piece of a bendy bus on a trailer
The main and real reason for Johnson to ban the bendy busses was that they were GERMAN vehicles and not British!
look at Londons buses now
@@MatStuff
Johnson isn‘t London‘s mayor anymore.
@@MatStuff yeah they are all chinese now or smth
If the bendy buses weren't removed altogether but instead relocated to other busy routes while the New Routemasters replaced them, we would be having hybrid and electric bendy buses by now.
yeah probably
Here in Germany bendy busses are common everywhere.
Training was lax, otherwise there'd have been no buses getting stuck enroute. They're an awesome bus. I loved driving them
Not all bendy buses were gone by 2011, I saw a bendy shuttle bus at Heathrow Airport in Late 2017 but since then I haven’t seen a single one
yeah they did have a few at Heathrow. this video was mainly focusing on the London ones
@@MatStuff oh ok cool 👍
Bendy buses still run, they even have some new ones at Stansted mostly for long-stay and also to move passengers from remote stands to the terminal building
@@transportfoxie nice 👍
I have never travelled on a bendy bus but watching them go past along a bumpy road I can only imagine how uncomfortable they are for those right at the back being jostled up and down until you're sick!
Routemaster from the 60's was the best London Bus ever!!
The 'bendy' buses have now been replaced by a fleet of fifteen former Go Ahead London Volvo B9TL/Wright Gemini 2 double-deckers. The final 'bendy' buses ran in service on Monday 31st October 2022 but a final 'farewell' was arranged by the company on Monday 7th November 2022
They are properly called : ARTICULATED TRANSIT BUSES .
ok mate
No, they’re just “articulated buses”, but “bendy bus” is a perfectly acceptable term, no clue where you’re getting transit from
@@transportfoxie I drove buses for 27 years buddy
Accordion Buses
@@jimmytraveller2970 Slinky Bus 😎
stockholm has buses with 4 doors, which is common with lots of european citys, fare evasion aint a problem 👍
The bendy buses in London were just only one type of model, the Citaro C1G.
The 453 got Citaro 2s when it passed to London Central in 2008.
0:04 That Bus do be Twerking Tho.
If they lasted longer we would just have ev/hybrid bendy buses as every bus from its era doesn’t operate in London again.
yeah
I went on a bendy bus once at a big country house called Wadston Manor. It was a car park shuttle.
The only reason the route masters were taken out was disability laws allowing everyone the right to be able to travel. The bendy buses were not built for the tight streets around the bank area central London . Londoners called them the free bus due to middle doors and back doors never paid to travel.
Blazing
Explosive
Noxious
Dangerous
Yellow
BENDY
Why not buying buses made by Neoplan or MAN why it has to be the Citaro?
I think London gifted the bendy buses to other cities in UK
r.i.p citaros
2002-2011
Reminds me of the First Yorkshire buses as well
I drove the 29 bendy bus from 2007 to 2011
0:05 damn
Yep. The thing I hate about the most of Citaro's (glad they are gone for over a decade now here in my city in The Netherlands). They just had that tendency to 'resonate' after taking a speed-bump or bridge, which was even felt badly when you were sitting close to the front of the bus. That, besides the annoying and slightly deafening hum from the engine did not make me favour these buses at all. But ah well... the Scania Omnilinks were (and still are) an even bigger disaster. The VDL Ambassadors we had were better, but Arriva had chosen for the worst possible doorsystem (sliding doors) that malfunctioned A LOT... When EBS took over, I was not happy to see they had chosen Scania Omnilinks AGAIN...
Thank god those are now also becoming a thing of the past and will probably be gone in a few years to come.
I was born in 2014 so the bendyz withdrawn
In all honesty, I can not understand why these buses have had so much trouble in London. I have driven them without any trouble for almost 15 years in and around Utrecht in the Netherlands. There are narrow corners and roads as well, but: when a 12 metre bus fits the 18 metre Mercedes bendy bus can take the same corner, including pretty tight ones. I liked to drive them because they are very comfortable. In Switserland they use them to serve lines on mountain roads, including hairpin bends, so I am not joking.... However, their most serious weak point is an overheated engine: engine fires are not a rare event with Mercedes buses. I like to think "it is part of their identity...". And that is a serious problem in London as traffic often comes into "slow motion mode". I wonder have there been 12 metre non-bended buses from Mercedes in London? And when so, was engine fire also a problem with those?
To be honest though, I'd rather see the rear-axle steering again on articulated buses. The Duvedec's and MB200's did such a great job in navigating even very tight corners just because the rear end basically pushed itself into the corner as well. The modern low-floor buses all lack this (except on the Van Hool double articulated ones of course, but it's a necessity on those) and since their introduction, buses in tight turns now have to wait for eachother to pass, or have to do a more careful approach, where they would be able to pass eachother without a hassle in the past.
The overheating engines were a general problem of the Citaro busses. It happened to both standard and bendy busses. But that problem has been solved.
@@geraldwagner8739Maybe the operator that used them here from 2006-2012 was well aware of this problem, because I can't remember hearing anything about a real problem with these (at least I can't remember a significant higher amount of fires with these buses compared to the others (VDL Ambassadors and Scania Omnilinks, which we had both in non-articulated and articulated version, while the Citaro's were found articulated only and the Ambassadors were non-articulated only by design.
@@weeardguy
The modern bendy busses lack the rear-axle steering because the huge majority of them are pushers. That means that the third axle is the drive axle.
I saw a bendy bus in 2023.
lean and bop
mods ban him
it’s stuck in my head im sorry sir
me personally i wouldn't get deported for getting stuck on routes
All the people who don't want to pay their bus fares here praising the bendies...
the bus lean & bops 💗
bro gotta wait for the sequel with the floating NTFL coaches
I think I never saw a citaro G shaking that much lol
Than you also have never been to the Waterland (The Netherlands) area ;) . The buslane from Purmerend to Amsterdam crosses over many small bridges that connect to the North-Holland Canal. The Citaro's Arriva used to have all had the same tendency to kind of resonate after taking such a bridge, leading to an annoyingly violent triple shake, even when sat at the front part of the bus.
En Londres no pegan estos autobuses pueden pegar en NY Chicago los ángeles Madrid paris pero nunca en Londres
I swore i saw a citaro Gs at city airport in 2017. They definitely wasnt london ones but i think they were some sort of airport shuttle thing like the former luton shuttle buses
Get knotted with AI voice.
Music?
Abut 2007 The bending buses were scrapped in glasgow They kept a couple on just breaking down But I think that all going now First ' Stagecoach ' MGILLS 2022 R.I.P I think that was the last date
Baaammbaaclaat this guy went from 900 to 1K in 3 days wthhhhhh lucky bruda
fr tyty
We took them off you
Funny old world, Bristol bought some of London's bendy buses when they were deemed as much use as a chocolate fireguard,
And guess what they were the same down here, another waste of local public money, god know who's got them now?
Are they still in service there?
we love lean and bop
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I BE MAKING OUT OF THE LONDON BENDY BUS MODEL IN FRONT OF ME WITH THIS ONE🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥
I used to like the bendy buses -
In fact, I like the bendy buses better thsn this robotic narrator... Bye.
lol
Why did he start with his actual voice then changed it to that annoying AI voice
because its easier to edit
@@MatStuffit’s shit mate
@@MatStuffwell it’s shite
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Last London route to have them was the 207
lean n bop booz
138 trek tune
207 bendy bus 🥹
hooray
Lean & Bop
Lean n Bop