Personally, I like this bus. It combines the modern london bus designs with vintage design, and it's especially convenient because you don't necesarily have to wait at a bus stop in order to get on or off a bus, which makes travel in london a lot more efficient.
great thing about these buses is, you can run down the road after it & jump on at any time, you dont have to wait at bus stops, i remember the london buses like that back in the 90s.
@cambridgeecon according to another article, the cost for production versions will be circa 300k a pop. That's roughly the same as an off the peg hybrid double decker. Factor in the 15% fuel saving over current hybrid buses, over a typical 10 year lifespan its a bargain.
In my experience the bendy buses were a nuisance from every angle. As a passenger you knew half the people weren't paying, they were slower and seemed to take longer to get going. They held up traffic (which includes other bendy buses). As a cyclist the bendy buses would come up my outside and really leave me feeling vulnerable and they would block you by being too long for you to go round at stops, pulling out when you're halfway along. A cyclist expends a lot of energy in stop start...
"And the seats are really squishy" nothing against the buses, I haven't personally been on one, but you're obviously gonna get positive comments from children.
@nickkomanz Nope, there are Oyster Card readers at every door, even the back, and during busy times apparently a community support police office may be at the rear of the bus :)
@ferranerazzi No i haven't asked them ! A survey carried out last year by a local cycling group and they showed motorists a replica sign and they asked them if they knew what it mean't, out of 100 drivers only 5 knew what the sign men't :(
was pretty excited when they started to deploy the bus on my route but its getting annoying that i have to practically travel by the new 'sauna'-master in the coming sunny days to work. airless air conditioners with no windows that you can open, what a major flaw! ive also realise that the leg room is smaller. its nothing more than an eye-candy. boris is a coconut to waste so much money to make us suffer.
This is just a modern bus with no door on the back and costing a fortune. But it is london (aka centre of the known universe) so the rest of the UK will be subsidising this folly
What's to stop people jumping on and off that open back at other than proper stops and into the path of moving traffic. It's a safety nightmare. In Manchester - and I'm sure we're not alone - it is strictly forbidden for the driver to open the doors except at a bus-stop and for very good reasons. Traffic today is far denser than when we last used open back buses up here forty years ago. It looks like an ugly, potentially dangerous and expensive ego-trip for an eccentric dreamer of a city mayor.
The old Routemaster was an icon of its day. This bus is as querky & eccentric as the mayor; hopping on & off at unrecognised stops in moving traffic? He must have some clout to persuade Health & Safety to turn a blind eye to that! I think someone was on a bit of a London-town ego-trip when he came up with this idea. Thankfully we won't be seeing it anywhere else in UK.
£300,000 being moved to a different place in the UK is much less bad than £200,000 completely going out the country (to Germany or another major 'bus exporter' (not that I have anything against other countries; I just think it's important for us to be more independent))
After 2 years you wont complaining anymore.. Be glad that Youre country still advcances in innovation and ideas. We, The Dutch get The Superbus in 2015, and that will also change alot of things in quick transporting options rather than a normal bus..
@sp1midholm I remember seeing in my youth a smartly dressed chap nonchalantly step off the bus between stops. He misjudged the speed and his face hit the pavement quite hard. I don't see the advantage of the platform. It costs almost twice as much to run the bus, there are three doors already so people can get on and off very quickly.
Bring back the bus conductor to make it faster and safer. The bus would spend less time at stops hold up traffic less, we would need less buses as they take less time to do the route, less chance of the driver being distracted so less accidence, someone to help with passenger safety and make sure every one pays.
@adotful Open rear-platform buses ran in London for over 100 years. Why should people fall off now, when there were hardly any reports of this happening years ago?
At 1:25 there is a red sign that says ''NARROW LANES DO NOT OVERTAKE CYCLISTS'' its surprising and shocking that 95% of motorists think this is a warning to cyclists NOT to overtake vehicles ! This sign is aimed at the motorist not the cyclist. This sign is telling vehicle drivers NOT to overtake cyclists in narrow area's of road.
@colcfc123 Bendy buses were not popular, especially with the poor sods like me that had to use them. There were so few seats that most had to stand, in rush hour it was akin to cattle trucks and they had a tendency to burst into flames. It was also too big for its boots, kind of like what Ken became in the end, a bitter old crony only interested in slush funds for himself and his hangers on buddies. No more trips to Nigerian 5 star Hotel resorts courtesy of Ken. Boo Hoo.
@StikManJones Don't worry the "lower classes, blacks etc" will continue to avoid paying as they did on the "Free" London "Bendy-Buses" sadly missed by all those who preferred NOT to pay....
@sp1midholm Probably the nowadays "average highly fucked up citizens of London" should fall off more than in the past because of their "I'm in a hurry for business/I care only about myself/I'm very drunk or high" attitude. Which is a lot different attitude than the english gentleman of the past, who jumps carefully to the back of a bus, holding his newspaper and umbrella.
Looks nice but won't stop the fare-dodging there was on the bendy-buses. I'd have preferred the money to go on the cross-river tram Boris stupidly cancelled.
£10Mil for 8 buses including research and development isn't actually that expensive. Regular modern buses cost a good £50k minimum, so yes you could get 12 more, but at least these are being build in Britain. I'm not just defending Johnson I think he's a bit of a knob but if it is providing more jobs that can only be a good thing. End of the day the only way for the country to get out of financial dire straight is to reduce unemployment, spending money brings benefits in the long term!
What a load of crap, nobody is going to care as they sit in the same traffic jams thinking about how expensive and rubbish public transport is in the UK.
@adotful Hopefully in this Nanny State we poor, feeble,pitiful,pathetic Londoners will have an Elf 'n Safety Commissar to help us on the Bus as we are so useless and dependent on others that the Nation that gave the World some of the greatest Pioneers,Explorers and Thinkers can not possibly be trusted to perform the onerous task of getting on AND off ourselves. Poor Lambs.
Personally, I like this bus. It combines the modern london bus designs with vintage design, and it's especially convenient because you don't necesarily have to wait at a bus stop in order to get on or off a bus, which makes travel in london a lot more efficient.
All London buses need free WiFi.
Great looking bus.
My city still drives those same designed buses which the Britishers left here in 1947 !
1:46 "I like it a lot I like the hop on and hop off - and the seats are really squishy"
They still use the old one for the Wimbledon Tennis Championships...
KEN, GO BUY YOURSELF A OLD FORD FIESTA.
LONDON DESERVES A TOP BUS.
great thing about these buses is, you can run down the road after it & jump on at any time, you dont have to wait at bus stops, i remember the london buses like that back in the 90s.
This bus looks good imo. Why so much hate?
Political trolls and whiney snowflakes.
I AM A BUS ENTHUSIAST AND I KNOW THAT BUS IS NOT A ROUTEMASTER
NOTHING ON THAT BUS IS FROM A OLD ROUTEMASTER SO IT IS A NEW BUS FOR LONDON
nice one....old routemaster with modern design.
IT IS NICE BUS
lool the way he says hackney!
38 from Victoria bus station. Been on it many a time.
great design..I like it
did you know one of the supervisors at wood green crashed this bus while on test at the depot?
@cambridgeecon according to another article, the cost for production versions will be circa 300k a pop. That's roughly the same as an off the peg hybrid double decker. Factor in the 15% fuel saving over current hybrid buses, over a typical 10 year lifespan its a bargain.
In my experience the bendy buses were a nuisance from every angle. As a passenger you knew half the people weren't paying, they were slower and seemed to take longer to get going. They held up traffic (which includes other bendy buses). As a cyclist the bendy buses would come up my outside and really leave me feeling vulnerable and they would block you by being too long for you to go round at stops, pulling out when you're halfway along. A cyclist expends a lot of energy in stop start...
Yer that looks cool
i was so glad to see the bendy busses go due to the amount of tramps that used them, now the tramps have a new mode of transport
"And the seats are really squishy" nothing against the buses, I haven't personally been on one, but you're obviously gonna get positive comments from children.
@Cyberwwwizard excellent points. people have such short memories regarding politics
@nickkomanz Nope, there are Oyster Card readers at every door, even the back, and during busy times apparently a community support police office may be at the rear of the bus :)
You can keep living in the past Ken, don't hate on Boris.
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@colcfc123 did you think developing a new bus from scratch was going to be free?
DAM CAPSLOCK oh..... got it working
@regentv980 Apologies if it was offensive but yes I fell I do. Did you have to reply to that comment?
its a just a bus as long as u can get where u want to go it dosent matter what it looks like
Oh get lost Livingstone, I like it and the state of some of the old busses... *shudder*.
@sp1midholm Quite right,my sentiments too!
@ferranerazzi No i haven't asked them ! A survey carried out last year by a local cycling group and they showed motorists a replica sign and they asked them if they knew what it mean't, out of 100 drivers only 5 knew what the sign men't :(
It'll do.
was pretty excited when they started to deploy the bus on my route but its getting annoying that i have to practically travel by the new 'sauna'-master in the coming sunny days to work. airless air conditioners with no windows that you can open, what a major flaw! ive also realise that the leg room is smaller. its nothing more than an eye-candy. boris is a coconut to waste so much money to make us suffer.
This is just a modern bus with no door on the back and costing a fortune. But it is london (aka centre of the known universe) so the rest of the UK will be subsidising this folly
ASAD AHMAD KNOWS EVERYTHING ABOUT LONDON BUSES ;)
What's to stop people jumping on and off that open back at other than proper stops and into the path of moving traffic. It's a safety nightmare. In Manchester - and I'm sure we're not alone - it is strictly forbidden for the driver to open the doors except at a bus-stop and for very good reasons. Traffic today is far denser than when we last used open back buses up here forty years ago. It looks like an ugly, potentially dangerous and expensive ego-trip for an eccentric dreamer of a city mayor.
The old Routemaster was an icon of its day. This bus is as querky & eccentric as the mayor; hopping on & off at unrecognised stops in moving traffic? He must have some clout to persuade Health & Safety to turn a blind eye to that! I think someone was on a bit of a London-town ego-trip when he came up with this idea. Thankfully we won't be seeing it anywhere else in UK.
£300,000 being moved to a different place in the UK is much less bad than £200,000 completely going out the country (to Germany or another major 'bus exporter' (not that I have anything against other countries; I just think it's important for us to be more independent))
i see 38s every day and have done so for a year now. not once have i seen one like this! where r they hiding?
After 2 years you wont complaining anymore.. Be glad that Youre country still advcances in innovation and ideas.
We, The Dutch get The Superbus in 2015, and that will also change alot of things in quick transporting options rather than a normal bus..
@XKTMRiderX Its when rugby players group together to fight for the ball and it's English.
I wish NXWM would do the same with a metrobus
@saifwahid Not really, seeing that the door can be shut by the driver :)
At least it's a double decker and not one of those stupid bendy buses.
@adotful they do have a door covering it
used to call this the cool dude bus
Lol
Even those old buses used for weddings are better
@sp1midholm because there wasnt the no win no fee possibilities back then
@sp1midholm I remember seeing in my youth a smartly dressed chap nonchalantly step off the bus between stops. He misjudged the speed and his face hit the pavement quite hard.
I don't see the advantage of the platform. It costs almost twice as much to run the bus, there are three doors already so people can get on and off very quickly.
Bring back the bus conductor to make it faster and safer. The bus would spend less time at stops hold up traffic less, we would need less buses as they take less time to do the route, less chance of the driver being distracted so less accidence, someone to help with passenger safety and make sure every one pays.
@TheHollyRog It's a bus what do you expect :D lol
fantastic 38s my bus! 10m though....!
@adotful Open rear-platform buses ran in London for over 100 years. Why should people fall off now, when there were hardly any reports of this happening years ago?
362 bus route is the best safe route grange hill to king georges hospital
Excuse me Ken? Buses as a vanity project? You have 0% place to talk about that! xD
THIS IS NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT A
routemaster
Two faced Ken Livingstone,also Peter Hendy a right wimp
original Rm never will be bettered as it still is a legend!
Ken 'Jew hater' Livingstone can go and do one!
@irhyslee Maybe I spoke too much
Bruh. I've got a homework about writing a summary of this video. Bruh.
The Kids like it. The Kids are the future. Deal with it.
@adotful
Seen Mi Bredrin...:)
The New Routemaster Is Nice, But The Bendy Buses Are Better
check out " the straddling bus " Japan
How come there is no elevator for wheel chairs? Is there in flight service?
The same reason that they don't have an ice cream machine for me or a 3d printer or a TV...dumbass.
It's a bus.
At 1:25 there is a red sign that says ''NARROW LANES DO NOT OVERTAKE CYCLISTS'' its surprising and shocking that 95% of motorists think this is a warning to cyclists NOT to overtake vehicles ! This sign is aimed at the motorist not the cyclist. This sign is telling vehicle drivers NOT to overtake cyclists in narrow area's of road.
@colcfc123 Bendy buses were not popular, especially with the poor sods like me that had to use them. There were so few seats that most had to stand, in rush hour it was akin to cattle trucks and they had a tendency to burst into flames. It was also too big for its boots, kind of like what Ken became in the end, a bitter old crony only interested in slush funds for himself and his hangers on buddies. No more trips to Nigerian 5 star Hotel resorts courtesy of Ken. Boo Hoo.
@StikManJones
Don't worry the "lower classes, blacks etc" will continue to avoid paying as they did on the "Free" London "Bendy-Buses" sadly missed by all those who preferred NOT to pay....
@sp1midholm
Probably the nowadays "average highly fucked up citizens of London" should fall off more than in the past because of their "I'm in a hurry for business/I care only about myself/I'm very drunk or high" attitude. Which is a lot different attitude than the english gentleman of the past, who jumps carefully to the back of a bus, holding his newspaper and umbrella.
Wish ulsterbus will get some
Best bus yet
when te toca mirarlo porque esres de ingles cambrige y pusiste los subtitulos para entender
xd
Luz Deyanira Reyes Guevara JAJAJAJJAJA YO TAMBIÉN
@CleansingInferno Haha =D nah i rarely go to London, why are they that fun? XD
@conwaytwitty33 Under my Soviet regime it will be
@blobby273 Second door just like the current system
Looks nice but won't stop the fare-dodging there was on the bendy-buses. I'd have preferred the money to go on the cross-river tram Boris stupidly cancelled.
Now people can hop on the bus even when its not at its designated stop, Just like ole times!!!
Recipe for something bad!
yes freedom. Which this current generation seems to be frightened of.
@Paypabluntz LMAO !
Really think mr yobbo is going to pay whilst having his postcode war? Haaa
£10Mil for 8 buses including research and development isn't actually that expensive. Regular modern buses cost a good £50k minimum, so yes you could get 12 more, but at least these are being build in Britain. I'm not just defending Johnson I think he's a bit of a knob but if it is providing more jobs that can only be a good thing. End of the day the only way for the country to get out of financial dire straight is to reduce unemployment, spending money brings benefits in the long term!
@Isleofskye innit
@sp1midholm Because now days we have chavs
There was nothing wrong with the old routemasters? In my view life is getting to modern too quick its frightening but thats progress i guess.
so people just jump on without paying? great.
What do you care! Do you own the company....phhht!!
Ken Livingstone needs to throw in the tunnel, if he had his way then London would be left behind in the 21st century.
@utrapzab
Seen, mi bredrin ultragzab
@UndertakeAAPHD oh thats good then they must have thought the disableds were not worth a mension,
There are plenty of other buses they can use, those that don't have a free service to pick them up and drop them off.
@michaelb3197 Do you have to be so coarse swearing
better to go on tranpsort than f... n benefits!!!!!!!
Fuck me it doesnt have tinted windows like the design
@kid4eva94 Haven't personally been on one?!
You've never lived, Boy.
millenium dome anyone!
THE SEATS REALLY SQUISHY!!
Daniel Martin 😂
Tram s for London is much more better as the monsters Busses return the Tramway on streets of London destroyed the Busses
'much more better'? You need an English tutor.
What s colossal waste of money. Whose bright idea were these?
What a load of crap, nobody is going to care as they sit in the same traffic jams thinking about how expensive and rubbish public transport is in the UK.
Nice Bus design! At least London did not go China to recruit dogs to drive the bus!
why do they need hop on hop off again i thought it was unsafe
Cry-baby, the world too frightening for you is it?
@adotful
Hopefully in this Nanny State we poor, feeble,pitiful,pathetic Londoners will have an Elf 'n Safety Commissar to help us on the Bus as we are so useless and dependent on others that the Nation that gave the World some of the greatest Pioneers,Explorers and Thinkers can not possibly be trusted to perform the onerous task of getting on AND off ourselves.
Poor Lambs.
Ha ha!!Routemonster
Looks like all the new-sayers are anti Tory or anti Boris. Sour-grapes!
Been looking at your comment history on here, really seems like you’re the sour-grape.