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Paul_J

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16th Dec 11 at 22:51

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-16213505

- really ? £1.3 million per bus? Seems expensive.

baza31

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16th Dec 11 at 22:58

Sounds about right for this country . They could get 10 double deckers for that . Most likely a back hander job

LeeM

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16th Dec 11 at 23:00

development costs and and any other project costs have no doubt been added up and divided by 8 and added to the actual cost of the bus

MarkSport

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16th Dec 11 at 23:12

I used to work for arriva in 2007, a bus back then for a single level bus were 125k, a double decker £275k and a national express coach £1million

ryzer

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16th Dec 11 at 23:14

All because they are made for a specific purpose,

what a waste of money, I still see the bastard old ones in London anyway!

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16th Dec 11 at 23:51

So we're in all this debt and the big cheese's in charge decide to spend over 10million pounds on 8 new buses. Conspiracy imo

Ian

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17th Dec 11 at 01:04

Absolutely daft, Arriva London spent £11m and got 57 buses, not 8.

AlunJ

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17th Dec 11 at 01:25

I saw an old routemaster today, true story. Sounds realistic to me, trains cost just over a million a carriage.

Graham88

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17th Dec 11 at 01:30

Considering they reckon the bendy buses were losing them £7.4m a year it's all comparable really. I think the figures for these things are ridiculous anyway, I'd love to see a breakdown to see what's costing what.

corsajay88

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17th Dec 11 at 08:32

My mate drives a hybrid bus, 300k each. Yesterday had some guy stop next to him in a range rover and said '90k this mate', he replied 300k this. Guy was gutted

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17th Dec 11 at 09:04

"Labour party said the buses cost £1.3m each". What's the bet that they cost significantly less?

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17th Dec 11 at 09:08

"Designed by London-based designers Heatherwick Studio and built by Northern Irish company Wrightbus, the hybrid open-platform bus has three doors and two staircases and cost £7.8m to develop."

"In total, just seven of the new Routemaster buses — and one in reserve — will be in service in the first half of 2012, though the mayor said there would be "hundreds more over the course of the next few years"."

"The combined cost of developing the new prototype Routemaster bus and a contract for just eight production models has set Transport for London back £11.37m. Each new bus will cost £315,000 — equivalent to the cost of each of the 150 hybrid buses already on London's roads, say Tfl."

So there you go, Labour are full of shit once again.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/dec/16/boris-johnson-routemaster-bus-london

Dave

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17th Dec 11 at 09:17

Pointing out the features of the design, Johnson said the "domed appearance" of the bus evoked "all those things that are iconic of London — the design of an old taxi, of a bowler hat or the nobled domed brow of a battle elephant".

I wish more politicians were like Boris.

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17th Dec 11 at 09:38

Boris is a legend

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17th Dec 11 at 11:54

I'd vote Conservative if Boris was their leader!

Robbo

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17th Dec 11 at 12:13

quote:
Originally posted by ed
"Labour party said the buses cost £1.3m each". What's the bet that they cost significantly less?

precisely!

These buses are going to be fantastic - really good to be in place in time for the olympics too, tourists wil lgo apeshit for them

Robbo

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17th Dec 11 at 12:13

quote:
Originally posted by AlunJ
Boris is a legend

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17th Dec 11 at 12:59

Then the other thing that pisses me off is you see that nasal voiced cunt moaning on about the Conservative government making too many cuts and then saying how they would b investing money into the economy. Then when something like that actually happens another cunt moans about how they shouldn't be spending any money because they don't have any.

At the next election, I'm going to take a marker pen and draw a gigantic, veiny, triumphant bastard of a penis on my ballot card.

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17th Dec 11 at 13:37

Knew certain members would be defending this bollocks

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17th Dec 11 at 14:04

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17th Dec 11 at 14:07

quote:
Originally posted by corsajay88
My mate drives a hybrid bus, 300k each. Yesterday had some guy stop next to him in a range rover and said '90k this mate', he replied 300k this. Guy was gutted

FPMSL

Except the range rover driver owns his 90k vehicle and the bus driver is simply driving someone elses 300k vehicle for probably 20k a year so why would the range rover driver be 'gutted'

alan-g-w

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17th Dec 11 at 14:35

I reckon it's bullshit anyway, what kind of oddball would say that to a bus driver? I'd have told him I couldn't give a sideways fuck

corsajay88

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17th Dec 11 at 15:01

FPMSL

Except the range rover driver owns his 90k vehicle and the bus driver is simply driving someone elses 300k vehicle for probably 20k a year so why would the range rover driver be 'gutted'

Think it was more the quick response and likely it wasnt his land rover either.

Plenty of oddballs like that in manchester

LeeM

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17th Dec 11 at 15:54

quote:
Originally posted by LeeM
development costs and and any other project costs have no doubt been added up and divided by 8 and added to the actual cost of the bus

quote:
Originally posted by ed
"Designed by London-based designers Heatherwick Studio and built by Northern Irish company Wrightbus, the hybrid open-platform bus has three doors and two staircases and cost £7.8m to develop."

"In total, just seven of the new Routemaster buses — and one in reserve — will be in service in the first half of 2012, though the mayor said there would be "hundreds more over the course of the next few years"."

"The combined cost of developing the new prototype Routemaster bus and a contract for just eight production models has set Transport for London back £11.37m. Each new bus will cost £315,000 — equivalent to the cost of each of the 150 hybrid buses already on London's roads, say Tfl."

So there you go, Labour are full of shit once again.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/dec/16/boris-johnson-routemaster-bus-london

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17th Dec 11 at 17:52

£2k. Sorted.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1993-LEYLAND-OLYMPIAN-DOUBLE-DECKER-BUS-/110795061304?pt=UK_Minibuses_Buses_Coaches&hash=item19cbe67838#ht_506wt_1270

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