London's Failed Buses - The Bendy Bus

thanks to whoever owns those videos and clips I forgot lol
also DONT comment lean and bop or you banned innit

[@MatStuff]

forgot to mention abt the ex glasgow wright fusions but whatever enjoy

[@VehiclesWithJacob4454317]

i love fusions sm

[@Icecreamtruckofdoom]

There's one failed bus you forgot the trailer bus

[@keithhardy8513]

"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 ? 😂😂

[@kieranstravels]

We makin it out of Brixton with this one 🔥🔥🔥🔥🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️

[@MatStuff]

fr

[@utter_cringe]

I loved the bendy buses, they were awesome, I used to have bendy bus toys and everything.

[@mindthegapplease3840]

I've got 3 Mercedes-Benz Bendy Buses as models toys. #LoveBendyBuses.

[@Hi_5shorts]

Me too

[@Mgameing123]

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.

[@ricardotella1864]

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.

[@Mgameing123]

@@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.

[@neulis125]

@@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

[@munaali840]

they put them on some routes that it didnt suit, there are many routes that could benefit that dont go through central london

[@amazingstarzz]

@@ricardotella1864TFL should’ve done a better job at assigning the routes for the bendy buses then

[@alterman156channel]

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.

[@arthurreeder8451]

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.

[@geraldwagner8739]

Here in Germany bendy busses are common everywhere.

[@SL-Kanalen24]

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.

[@TheTimmynatoRex]

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.

[@MatStuff]

yeah probably

[@Hi_5shorts]

RIP articulated buses in london 😢😢😢

[@YaoboyProd2K15]

The bendy buses in London were just only one type of model, the Citaro C1G.

[@leicestertravels4705]

The 453 got Citaro 2s when it passed to London Central in 2008.

[@michaelbacon561]

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!

[@geraldwagner8739]

The main and real reason for Johnson to ban the bendy busses was that they were GERMAN vehicles and not British!

[@MatStuff]

look at Londons buses now

[@geraldwagner8739]

@@MatStuff Johnson isn‘t London‘s mayor anymore.

[@Windsor_Intl_Airlines.]

me personally i wouldn't get deported for getting stuck on routes

[@alicanharryreilly8353]

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

[@Peter-mj6lz]

If they lasted longer we would just have ev/hybrid bendy buses as every bus from its era doesn’t operate in London again.

[@MatStuff]

yeah

[@zippymo672]

I drove the 29 bendy bus from 2007 to 2011

[@EdVanMeyer]

Routemaster from the 60's was the best London Bus ever!!

[@thetransportlad350]

I went on a bendy bus once at a big country house called Wadston Manor. It was a car park shuttle.

[@maritime_history1912]

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

[@MatStuff]

yeah they did have a few at Heathrow. this video was mainly focusing on the London ones

[@maritime_history1912]

@@MatStuff oh ok cool 👍

[@neulis125]

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

[@maritime_history1912]

@@neulis125 nice 👍

[@malalikesroblox]

0:05 damn

[@weeardguy]

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.

[@malalikesroblox]

I was born in 2014 so the bendyz withdrawn

[@sylviapemba1617]

r.i.p citaros 2002-2011 Reminds me of the First Yorkshire buses as well

[@trevorgwelch7412]

They are properly called : ARTICULATED TRANSIT BUSES .

[@MatStuff]

ok mate

[@neulis125]

No, they’re just “articulated buses”, but “bendy bus” is a perfectly acceptable term, no clue where you’re getting transit from

[@trevorgwelch7412]

@@neulis125 I drove buses for 27 years buddy

[@jimmytraveller2970]

Accordion Buses

[@trevorgwelch7412]

@@jimmytraveller2970 Slinky Bus 😎

[@WilliamSmith-mx6ze]

All the people who don't want to pay their bus fares here praising the bendies...

[@JaapFilius]

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?

[@weeardguy]

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.

[@geraldwagner8739]

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.

[@weeardguy]

@@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.

[@geraldwagner8739]

@@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.

[@ChilternTransportProductions]

Yes there have been rigid Citaros on TfL (Red) routes such as 507 and 521 with Go Ahead London, RATP London United on 203, X26 (now SL7) from RATP Quality Line/Epsom Coaches replaced and Stagecoach on the 227. The 108 is the only “old” version still in use today, all transferred from 507 and 521. The 358 has newer Citaro C2 from GAL too and RATP London United has the similar but shorter Citaro K on the 117, which are ex RATP Quality Line from the 413 Not many fires with those in London that I can remember but I’m sure someone will mention if I missed one

[@357account]

lean and bop

[@MatStuff]

mods ban him

[@357account]

it’s stuck in my head im sorry sir

[@joseollero3788]

En Londres no pegan estos autobuses pueden pegar en NY Chicago los ángeles Madrid paris pero nunca en Londres

[@heckmacbuff]

Get knotted with AI voice.

[@rileyludlow961]

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

[@southeasternsqu1dge465]

the bus lean & bops 💗

[@MatStuff]

bro gotta wait for the sequel with the floating NTFL coaches

[@doisti-kun]

I think I never saw a citaro G shaking that much lol

[@weeardguy]

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.

[@313rail]

We took them off you

[@TamworthTheOfficial]

lean n bop booz

[@CoolTransport]

W

[@McLarenrailss]

hooray

[@VehiclesWithJacob4454317]

we love lean and bop

[@MatStuff]

fr

[@TESL1.10]

Baaammbaaclaat this guy went from 900 to 1K in 3 days wthhhhhh lucky bruda

[@MatStuff]

fr tyty

[@BusOnDiversion]

I BE MAKING OUT OF THE LONDON BENDY BUS MODEL IN FRONT OF ME WITH THIS ONE🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥

[@johnrafferty8087]

Last London route to have them was the 207

[@shaunmaxwell9948]

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

[@justask6921]

Music?

[@doomybear7389]

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?

[@SkibiditoiletfromAachen]

Are they still in service there?

[@idontknow12383]

Lean n Bop

[@JamesNicol-Buses47]

Lean & Bop

[@brigidsingleton1596]

I used to like the bendy buses - In fact, I like the bendy buses better thsn this robotic narrator... Bye.

[@MatStuff]

lol

[@ethansalmon1515]

Why did he start with his actual voice then changed it to that annoying AI voice

[@MatStuff]

because its easier to edit

[@ethansalmon1515]

@@MatStuffit’s shit mate

[@ethansalmon1515]

@@MatStuffwell it’s shite

[@Mohul06]

207 bendy bus 🥹

[@jasonday7378]

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