London's new Routemaster unveils

[@25151206]

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.

[@kwabena_hmk]

All London buses need free WiFi.

[@Trainbashingwithdan]

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

[@kid4eva94]

"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.

[@jmdoutdoors5729]

Great looking bus.

[@njY2K]

This bus looks good imo. Why so much hate?

[@stuartmenziesfarrant]

Political trolls and whiney snowflakes.

[@messiiironaldo]

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.

[@902107910]

1:46 "I like it a lot I like the hop on and hop off - and the seats are really squishy"

[@evantis121]

@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.

[@PoshKimmi]

They still use the old one for the Wimbledon Tennis Championships...

[@spotoncam3640]

My city still drives those same designed buses which the Britishers left here in 1947 !

[@transportenthusiast11]

Which city's that?

[@spotoncam3640]

@@transportenthusiast11 Back then (10 years old comment) I was talking about Mumbai (Britishers name "Bombay"), Now I live somewhere else.

[@transportenthusiast11]

@@spotoncam3640 Ah I see. Out of interest, why do you say 'Britishers'?

[@mataphysicalclub]

KEN, GO BUY YOURSELF A OLD FORD FIESTA. LONDON DESERVES A TOP BUS.

[@Trainbashingwithdan]

THIS IS NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT A routemaster

[@mrspivvy]

@Cyberwwwizard excellent points. people have such short memories regarding politics

[@PJSouthall]

did you know one of the supervisors at wood green crashed this bus while on test at the depot?

[@vipult007]

nice one....old routemaster with modern design.

[@mini20110]

Yer that looks cool

[@IanLanc]

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.

[@touhid08]

IT IS NICE BUS

[@WilliamGarrow]

38 from Victoria bus station. Been on it many a time.

[@DOSHIDARYA]

great design..I like it

[@FistsofVengeance]

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

[@Saddamuel]

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...

[@SonicOverlordUK]

Oh get lost Livingstone, I like it and the state of some of the old busses... *shudder*.

[@IanLanc]

@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 :(

[@krashd]

Ken Livingstone needs to throw in the tunnel, if he had his way then London would be left behind in the 21st century.

[@conwaytwitty33]

@colcfc123 did you think developing a new bus from scratch was going to be free?

[@bigdog66711]

its a just a bus as long as u can get where u want to go it dosent matter what it looks like

[@irhyslee]

@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 :)

[@regentv980]

@sp1midholm Quite right,my sentiments too!

[@kaos141]

lool the way he says hackney!

[@johnomi]

You can keep living in the past Ken, don't hate on Boris.

[@allanatton9118]

1

[@irhyslee]

@saifwahid Not really, seeing that the door can be shut by the driver :)

[@welcome567]

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.

[@MegaVector2011]

It'll do.

[@ColKlinkerhofen]

@XKTMRiderX Its when rugby players group together to fight for the ball and it's English.

[@bill2893]

£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))

[@JammyDo]

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.

[@Xorem]

Bruh. I've got a homework about writing a summary of this video. Bruh.

[@utrapzab]

@sp1midholm because there wasnt the no win no fee possibilities back then

[@michaelb3197]

@regentv980 Apologies if it was offensive but yes I fell I do. Did you have to reply to that comment?

[@regentv980]

Two faced Ken Livingstone,also Peter Hendy a right wimp original Rm never will be bettered as it still is a legend!

[@stuartmenziesfarrant]

Ken 'Jew hater' Livingstone can go and do one!

[@conwaytwitty33]

£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!

[@Zoza15]

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..

[@welcome567]

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.

[@pgbaines65]

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.

[@MikeyL613]

The Kids like it. The Kids are the future. Deal with it.

[@weedannyson15]

DAM CAPSLOCK oh..... got it working

[@conwaytwitty33]

@adotful they do have a door covering it

[@weedannyson15]

ASAD AHMAD KNOWS EVERYTHING ABOUT LONDON BUSES ;)

[@GoofieNewfie69]

How come there is no elevator for wheel chairs? Is there in flight service?

[@stuartmenziesfarrant]

The same reason that they don't have an ice cream machine for me or a 3d printer or a TV...dumbass.

[@joshua.ynginho]

used to call this the cool dude bus

[@fokuz2025]

Lol

[@Corp0ralPunishment]

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.

[@WestLondonTransport]

The New Routemaster Is Nice, But The Bendy Buses Are Better

[@sp1midholm]

@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?

[@spike200965]

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

[@MiglianinoFilms]

@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.

[@jacklav1]

@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.

[@msfan1292]

I wish NXWM would do the same with a metrobus

[@Isleofskye]

@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....

[@ItsZadz]

Even those old buses used for weddings are better

[@freshenup]

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?

[@CT1970NL]

i miss so much the old Routemaster. this new one, is so ugly.

[@BROADTRAIN1979]

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.

[@TheSpeedfreak665]

@TheHollyRog It's a bus what do you expect :D lol

[@Blurredman]

At least it's a double decker and not one of those stupid bendy buses.

[@amiablerecluse01]

Excuse me Ken? Buses as a vanity project? You have 0% place to talk about that! xD

[@SpiderPigggg]

@irhyslee Maybe I spoke too much

[@andyg3]

horrible thing. what happened to proper British elegance, engineering, and design.

[@TESCOSGRESHAM]

362 bus route is the best safe route grange hill to king georges hospital

[@tentringer4065]

What s colossal waste of money. Whose bright idea were these?

[@stuartmenziesfarrant]

Looks like all the new-sayers are anti Tory or anti Boris. Sour-grapes!

[@8834]

Been looking at your comment history on here, really seems like you’re the sour-grape.

[@luzdeyanirareyesguevara1534]

when te toca mirarlo porque esres de ingles cambrige y pusiste los subtitulos para entender xd

[@Xorem]

Luz Deyanira Reyes Guevara JAJAJAJJAJA YO TAMBIÉN

[@cambridgeecon]

fantastic 38s my bus! 10m though....!

[@weedannyson15]

THE SEATS REALLY SQUISHY!!

[@pengting1003]

Daniel Martin 😂

[@Isleofskye]

@adotful Seen Mi Bredrin...:)

[@lafrequenciaofficial]

check out " the straddling bus " Japan

[@daviddowd3509]

10 million for 8 buses Bargain! Glad my tax is well spent :D

[@SpiderPigggg]

Now people can hop on the bus even when its not at its designated stop, Just like ole times!!! Recipe for something bad!

[@stuartmenziesfarrant]

yes freedom. Which this current generation seems to be frightened of.

[@andyg3]

it looks futureistic, and 'sleek' not elegant

[@kid4eva94]

@CleansingInferno Haha =D nah i rarely go to London, why are they that fun? XD

[@lusaka99]

why do they need hop on hop off again i thought it was unsafe

[@stuartmenziesfarrant]

Cry-baby, the world too frightening for you is it?

[@TheOdessaSteps]

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.

[@EnterprisingRailFilms]

Wish ulsterbus will get some Best bus yet

[@andrewmannwitt2128]

Tram s for London is much more better as the monsters Busses return the Tramway on streets of London destroyed the Busses

[@stuartmenziesfarrant]

'much more better'? You need an English tutor.

[@evantis121]

@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.

[@nickkomanz]

so people just jump on without paying? great.

[@stuartmenziesfarrant]

What do you care! Do you own the company....phhht!!

[@regentv980]

@michaelb3197 Do you have to be so coarse swearing

[@KevvyBoyy]

It's a bus.

[@Isleofskye]

@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.

[@cycledayz]

what a piece of crap the junk yard would even refuse that thing and they say its green only green it will see is grass cause no one gonna buy the piece of rubbish

[@Iivingstone]

@conwaytwitty33 Under my Soviet regime it will be

[@michaelb3197]

Fuck me it doesnt have tinted windows like the design

[@capano1971]

Nice Bus design! At least London did not go China to recruit dogs to drive the bus!

[@UndertakeAAPHD]

@blobby273 Second door just like the current system

[@Ha1v3rs0n]

@sp1midholm Because now days we have chavs

[@ABanRocks]

I love them but I know there will be a dick which will destroy it by writing on it or damaging it in some way.

[@CleansingInferno]

@kid4eva94 Haven't personally been on one?! You've never lived, Boy.

[@danstratone9291]

better to go on tranpsort than f... n benefits!!!!!!!

[@blobby273]

@UndertakeAAPHD oh thats good then they must have thought the disableds were not worth a mension,

[@stuartmenziesfarrant]

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.