Experts on bus design and production have cast doubt over Boris Johnson’s pledge to build a new Routemaster if he is elected mayor of London on May 1.
In his transport manifesto, the Tory candidate pledges to scrap London’s 340 articulated buses and launch a competition to design a new Routemaster.
But experts interviewed by Transit suggested that it was a promise he could not deliver. A senior executive with a UK bus builder said a new Routemaster could not be certified, and...
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