Talk:Buses in London
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Table
editThe table with country flags shown under "Service area" is confusing - do the flags need to be on there? Crookesmoor (talk) 15:37, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
- Policy is to only use country flags if they add information which is not already in the text. I do not understand what these are supposed to be doing. Remove.Charles (talk) 18:16, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
Contradiction
editThe article currently says:
The last bus specifically designed for London was the AEC Routemaster, built between 1956 and 1968. Since then, buses built for London's local services have all been variants of models built for general use elsewhere
and:
In May 2010 Mayor of London Boris Johnson unveiled the design of the New Routemaster, the proposed replacement for the Routemaster as an iconic standard bus for exclusive use in London.
Unless I've missed something, both cannot be true. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:08, 1 January 2020 (UTC)
History
editIn the table headed: "Management of London Transport 1933-2000," the overseer of the LPTB is shown as "London County Council" (LCC). Although there was a representative of the LCC on the Board (as there was for Surrey County Council, the LPTB was, in fact, a quasi-public organisation akin to a modern QUANGO. It was, to a limited extent, accountable to users via The London and Home Counties Traffic Advisory Committee and its annual reports were addressed to the Minister of Transport. See <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Passenger_Transport_Board<ref>, <ref>LPTB Annual Reports 1934 to 1948<ref> and <ref>"A History of London Transport Vol.II" by TC Barker and Michael Robbins (1974), Chapter 15<ref>Haynesta (talk)
History
editI think bits in the vehicles section can be moved to the history section - leaving the vehicles section to be about buses in London today? This would be things like the AEC Routemaster withdrawal, introduction of articulated buses, New Routemaster, recent introduction of zero emission buses etc... Thoughts? Turini2 (talk) 10:48, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
- Other bits worth adding to the history section - expanding on the fall of ridership post war, Fares Fair, the introduction of bus lanes, low floor buses (first major city with 100% accessible fleet), fall in ridership in the 2020s... Any thoughts?Turini2 (talk) 12:34, 18 August 2022 (UTC)
Move discussion in progress
editThere is a move discussion in progress on Talk:RedBus which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. —RMCD bot 08:18, 28 March 2023 (UTC)