Passenger watchdog London TravelWatch has said there’s “no case” for replacing the bendy buses serving routes 521, 507 and 38 and that doing so “represents poor value for money for bus users”.
Transport for London is proposing scrapping the controversial bendy buses and replacing with single and double-decker buses.
Chief Executive Janet Cooke said her body “believes that the use of articulated buses on routes with a high volume of passengers has overwhelming advantages, in terms of accessibility, manoeuvrability in limited road space and loading and dwell times.”
Cooke claimed that scrapping the bendy buses would increase operating costs commenting: “We have estimated, and TfL has not disputed the figure, that additional costs on these three routes alone could be in the region of £12/13 million pounds per annum.”
