Who is in control of Boris's Bus?

[Pakenhamtrain]

Apparently each of the (1,000) new Routemasters cost £355,000. That is an astronomical amount of money for a bus. Even more-so when you consider the quantities of scale that an order of 1,000 should have brought.

So Boris spent £355 million just on a new bus fleet, wow. I would say that is at least 2.5x as much as what they ought to have cost and maybe a lot less for such a whopping order?

Meanwhile down here our government spent around 8 million pound of 100 new buses.

 

[furnessvale]

Meanwhile down here our government spent around 8 million pound of 100 new buses.

Unless I am reading press reports wrongly, only 50 are hybrid, the other 50 being conventional diesel and of course all are single decked with a lower capacity than UK double deckers.

 

[najaB]

Unless I am reading press reports wrongly, only 50 are hybrid, the other 50 being conventional diesel and of course all are single decked with a lower capacity than UK double deckers.

All of that may be true, but are the new Routemasters 4 times better than the Australian buses? Because they cost 4 times as much.

 

[furnessvale]

All of that may be true, but are the new Routemasters 4 times better than the Australian buses? Because they cost 4 times as much.

I am not claiming that but the bland initial inference needs to be taken in context.

 

[najaB]

I am not claiming that but the bland initial inference needs to be taken in context.

Fair enough.