To reduce the scope for fare evasion, TfL will be modifying all New Routemaster vehicles so that they are front door boarding only except wheelchair users etc and customers will be able to alight through either of the two rear doors.
Activities will include driver briefing sessions, customer communications and engagement and updated vehicle signage. Link to document. Unite raised concerns about the changes being based on incorrect or rather undervalued data on bus patronage as fare evasion, particularly on New Routemaster NRM buses. If the boarding arrangement is a success, I personally think TfL could retain the arrangement of three-door boarding buses and potentially bring back articulated buses in the future.
I invite you to follow me on Twitter by searching for CLondoner Newer Post Older Post Home. That is partly a matter of taste. But these features began to disappear soon after the bus went into regular service. There were also hopes that other cities would want their versions of the bespoke new London bus and pay TfL for the rights to its Thomas Heatherwick design, but none have been forthcoming.
However, that very same feature was ingeniously incorporated into the Wrightbus creation. Two months before Johnson stepped down as Mayor, in February , TfL ordered a further New Routemasters from manufacturer Wrightbus, bringing the total purchased up to The price per bus was a little lower than for previous batches, but the election of Khan in May that year ensured that they would, nonetheless, be the last the city purchased.
At the end of last year, route became the most recent to converted to the New Routemaster and also the final one. We have, therefore, reached peak Boris Bus. Should we be happy or sad? That will depend on how you view the New Routemaster balance sheet in general and, in many cases, how you feel about Boris Johnson.
Whatever your opinion, it will be a long time before they start to disappear. The typical lifespan of a London bus is 14 years.
With only five having elapsed since the New Routemaster rolled out on to route 24, this particular legacy of the Johnson mayoralty looks set to last until at least Bottom lines: 1. I am not a fan of the NB4L. They are excessively hot and smelly and make me ill — unlike any other bus. There are other factors which need to be considered in any analysis.
Firstly they seem to be disproportionately unreliable — some routes never manage a full roll out of the vehicles. There are still electrical failures which immobilise the vehicles completely. English Cymraeg. Sign in or sign up. Search Submit Search. Upcoming New Routemaster routes converting to front door only boarding Edward Sutherland made this Freedom of Information request to Transport for London This request has been closed to new correspondence. The request was successful.
Edward Sutherland 22 February Delivered. Dear Transport for London, 1. Can you provide the dates of the NRM front door conversion? What is the cost of the NRM front door only boarding project? What are the future plans for the New Routemaster project? What is the purpose of the New Routemaster project including the total costs? When do TfL plan to start a new project to succeed the New Routemaster bus?
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