[calewis]

This project was doomed from the start, and was yet another vanity project for Boris. Great Gaurdian article which references the design flaws from the get-go: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/architecture-design...

As I understand, from a friend at TFL, they could have replaced the whole fleet of buses with electric ones for the same price as this vanity disaster.

[reallydontask]

> As I understand, from a friend at TFL, they could have replaced the whole fleet of buses with electric ones for the same price as this vanity disaster.

This is interesting. Any published analysis, articles. It would be an interesting read for sure

[calewis]

Sadly it was an internal consultation that, unsurprisingly, wasn’t published. I think there could be good grounds for an FOI request though.