Routemaster takes final journey
I'm very sad. My old bus route, the 159, is no longer a routemaster route. Today marks the last journey of the Routemaster as a proper bus. No longer will the passenger left at the stop be able to run to the traffic lights and get the better of the bloody-minded bus drivers. No more seats facing each other, full of three fat people on one side and four thin people on the other. No more ignoring the conductor, pretending you've already paid. No more little piece of string all the way up the bus that goes 'ding'.
Routemaster: There won't be another one along in a minute
Routemaster: There won't be another one along in a minute
(From www.routemaster.org.uk)
…after that's all over, from 7.30 p.m. on Saturday 10th December watch BBC4's Bus Night (and if you don't have a digital receiver then you've got 3 days in which to get one!!) It includes 'Perpetual Motion', an Arena special about bus conductors, Cliff's 'Summer Holiday', The Young Ones 'Summer Holiday', 'On the Buses' and 'Sykes and a Following' - filmed mostly at Chiswick.
I was on the 159 route as well. Now if you want to ride in style you have to use the heritage routes.
Posted by
Ben |
Fri Dec 09, 03:26:00 pm
You mean I have to choose between spending £40 on a digital receiver and watcvhing Bus Night and.... actually, nearly anything else wins, doesn't it?
Posted by
Matt |
Fri Dec 09, 03:30:00 pm
You could always pay your television tax, I mean licence fee, and watch it on the BBC. Oh. It's on the BBC but it's still extra money. Yey television tax.
Posted by
Ben |
Fri Dec 09, 03:43:00 pm