What a surprise, bendy buses are more dangerous than the buses they replaced

Kn introduced bendy buses as a way of allowing his client voters; the poor, the "youf" and the benefit claimants to travel for free by ignoring the Oyster card machines. Now it seems that "Bendy buses have been involved in more accidents on central London routes than the double-deckers they replaced. Figures for two city centre routes show collisions have increased dramatically since the introduction of bendy vehicles. There was a 45 per cent rise in accidents involving the No38 Victoria to Clapton between April 2006 and the same month in 2007, the first full year of bendy buses, compared to the previous 12 months when double-deckers were the main vehicle on the route. Accidents rose by 70 from 154 in 2005/06 to 224 in 2006/07. Another route, the No29 from Wood Green to Trafalgar Square, recorded 58 more accidents when bendy buses were used for their first full year."

No doubt Ken Livingstone and his team of TfL fools will claim otherwise, but then does anyone in London believe a word they say anymore?



One of my first blogs was about people riding for free on bendy buses, you can read that article here, but the key part is "I took a short journey on a bendy bus today and counted the number of people who got into the bus via one of the centre doors without "touching in"; I made it about 40% ignoring the machines. Many people are getting a free ride on London buses, maybe that is what "cuddly" Ken Livingstone wants but do the rest of us really want to subsidise the travel arrangements of freeloaders?"