routemaster

The articulated eyesores are down to just three routes.

From fish shops to golf courses.

A rough and ready video clip of the ‘new Routemaster’

Tuesday’s headline news. From the serious to the downright silly. Special-guest-featuring a story about boobs.

Tuesday’s other news, including trouble for the new Routemaster and a threat to London’s firefighters.

Thanks to Transport for London for these pictures of the new Routemaster bus (we really need to stop calling it that at some stage) shown off by the Mayor yesterday. There is also an excellent gallery over at The Guardian, which features some images taken …

Mayor Boris Johnson this morning introduced a full-size replica of the New Bus for London, aka the replacement for Routemaster, at the London Transport Museum depot in Acton. Built in the spirit of the superannuated London icon, the new bus has a rear open deck, …

BBC London has been out to Ballymena, Northern Ireland, to visit the headquarters of Wrightbus, the company charged with building the New Bus for London, occasionally known as ‘son of Routemaster’. They’ve come back with pictures and a video walk-through of the prototype vehicle. Of …

Boris Johnson unveiled the new Bus for London this morning. This is it. To say the back end of the Wrightbus-designed vehicle looks like the back end of a bus is, we reckon, offensive to the back ends of buses – and the front isn’t …

As previously noted, the Sci-Fi-London film festival begins today. We think the excitement might be getting to reader Vicki Garner’s head: Have you noticed that the design of the Dalek “skirt” is strikingly similar to the columns at the end of the platforms at Whitechapel …