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• Transport for London will no longer use bendy buses

  thewall.co.uk | 9:50 am Dec 9, 2011

  • Bendy buses will no longer be used by Transport for London
  • Mayor Boris Johnson said that these busses are too big for narrow streets and that they encourage fare-evasion
  • Transport for All is concerned that the replacement buses do not provide enough space for wheelchairs

• Bendy bus makes final journey for Transport for London

  bbc.co.uk | 9:23 am Dec 9, 2011

  The last of London's bendy buses will be taken off the roads on Friday night. The vehicles were used on 12 routes over the past decade but Mayor Boris Johnson called them "cumbersome machines" which were too big for narrow streets and encouraged…

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  thisislondon.co.uk | 3:06 pm Dec 9, 2011

  Skip NavigationBoris Johnson today said farewell to the bendy bus as a row broke out over passengers having to fight for seats on their replacements. The Mayor fulfilled a manifesto pledge to remove the 18-metre articulated buses by converting the last of…

• Last Day Of The Bendy Bus

  londonist.com | 3:52 pm Dec 9, 2011

  Today’s your last chance to ride the bendy bus. From the morning of Saturday, 10th December, the 207, the only route still operated by the much-maligned articulated vehicles, will be served by a fleet of new double decker vehicles. Almost ten years after…

• Homelessness: end of the line for the Bendy-bus rough sleepers

  guardian.co.uk | 5:16 pm Dec 9, 2011

  A few nights on a bus in the early hours of the morning was a revelation for Robert Wilkins, documentary-maker and director of a short, eye-opening Guardian film on the scores of homeless people who would clamber aboard London's N29 night "bendy bus" to…

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• Final farewell to London's bendy buses http://t.co/jwcceGG6

  @standardnews - Evening Standard
  

  8:49 am Dec 9, 2011
• Todays the last day for ALL bendy buses in london! :(

  @DonJassySays - Jasmine Frsh
  

  6:40 pm Dec 9, 2011
• Can we have a moment of silence for the bendy bus *wipes tear* the end of an (free travel* error

  @Sashy_101 - Sashan Flanders
  

  6:09 pm Dec 9, 2011
• I used to avoid the bendy 149 like the plague.. There was always a bunch a crawny humans on there.

  @DavinaPurple - Daexa Foqui Ruckus
  

  5:08 pm Dec 9, 2011
• Homelessness: end of the line for the Bendy-bus rough sleepers http://t.co/mXkb0Nli via @guardian

  @PaulTOwen - PaulTOwen
  

  3:39 pm Dec 9, 2011
• @MSNSteveJ @AlfieConn Yes some of the bendy buses are heading for Malta... but it doesn't seem to be going too well http://t.co/6l9eCLNn

  @isabel_lo - Isabel Lo
  

  3:09 pm Dec 9, 2011
• RIP Bendy Bus.

  @TheChicGeekcouk - The Chic Geek
  

  1:36 pm Dec 9, 2011
• RIP bendy buses #London

  @jameskthorp - James Thorp
  

  1:18 pm Dec 9, 2011
• London deserves a mayor honest enough to cheerily admit he never once paid to ride on a bendy bus.

  @FreeSouthLondon - Free South London
  

  12:48 pm Dec 9, 2011
• @KulveerRanger Bendy buses never dangerous for cyclists. Unlike Cycle Superhighways. Lets have some facts rather than spin.

  @VoleOSpeed - David Arditti
  

  12:37 pm Dec 9, 2011
• @TfLofficial What is TfL doing to mitigate the impact withdrawing bendy buses will have on less-mobile passengers?

  @piombo - Subjefe del Piombo
  

  12:02 pm Dec 9, 2011
• “@standardnews: Final farewell to London's bendy buses http://t.co/MEdpNEmJ” replaced by Wrightbus-built new routemasters

  @jimfitzbiz - Jim Fitzpatrick
  

  11:48 am Dec 9, 2011
• "Bendy bus makes final journey for Transport for London" - http://t.co/vGKDQIpN Don't know why they ever made them! #goodriddance

  @healthpubsect - Health&Public Sector
  

  11:45 am Dec 9, 2011
• The photo of a bendy bus on @DaveHill 's blog is, err, not a bendy bus http://t.co/PDNAzj1I

  @jamesup - jamesup
  

  11:45 am Dec 9, 2011
• Damn, was actually contemplating a ride on a bendy bus later then realised the 207 starts in bloody shepherds bush. #bendyendy #parttimegeek

  @potato_dog - susie w c
  

  11:44 am Dec 9, 2011
• Join us in bidding 'good riddance' to London's awful bendy buses today! >> http://t.co/eSuW2TYc << Last remnants of Ken. Never come back!

  @CommentatorIntl - The Commentator
  

  11:39 am Dec 9, 2011
• Why did apolitical @TfLOfficial tweet a picture of a bendy bus, delete it, then have it RT'd by political @BackBoris2012 ? We should be told

  @BorisWatch - Boris Watch
  

  11:18 am Dec 9, 2011
• Today is the last day of the bendy bus in London. Will you miss it? http://t.co/qHEVWJr7

  @Londonist - Londonist
  

  9:36 am Dec 9, 2011
• So long, farewell... "Final journey for the bendy bus: before last of them taken off the roads tonight" http://t.co/hVCjFixc

  @RizLateef - Riz Lateef
  

  9:10 am Dec 9, 2011
• @BorisWatch Good point - just as 18m bendy buses are removed on safety grounds, Govt wants to run trial of 18.5 metre lorries!

  @CTC_Cyclists - CTC
  

  8:56 am Dec 9, 2011
• RIP bendy buses - we didn't all hate you. Especially those who travel to work via overcrowded bus in SE London. Will watch with interest!

  @PippaCrerar - Pippa Crerar
  

  8:41 am Dec 9, 2011
• Future children across London will grow up never knowing a world where bendy buses roamed free. They may see pictures but never in the wild.

  @is_tim - Tim Harris
  

  8:35 am Dec 9, 2011
• .@BackBoris2012 Why did Boris lie about fake bendy/cyclist deaths, but ignores real HGV/cyclist deaths? #honestyfreedomday

  @BorisWatch - Boris Watch
  

  8:30 am Dec 9, 2011
• Been on BBC London radio talking about demise of bendy bus. What matters is the service on offer - people get too hung up on the kit.

  @RichardHebditch - Richard Hebditch
  

  8:23 am Dec 9, 2011
• BBC News - Last bendy bus journey http://t.co/AKyCUiwe "increase takings by £7.4m" - "less fare evasion" - what cost of new buses #sackboris

  @tomburke999 - Tom Burke
  

  8:16 am Dec 9, 2011
• No doubt NOT the last day of Boris lies about bendy buses. Will he even dare repeat the (wrong) claim they killed cyclists? #sackboris

  @sackboris2012 - Sack Boris
  

  8:14 am Dec 9, 2011
• London's bendy buses disappear today. But if you go on holiday to Malta, you might see them again... http://t.co/iW2GDrOL

  @lbc973 - LBC 97.3
  

  8:00 am Dec 9, 2011
• Signs of the Apocalypse: The last bendy bus; they've actually finished painting the Forth Bridge; there's a new Twitter website.

  @ianvisits - IanVisits
  

  7:50 am Dec 9, 2011
• The final bendy bus will make its last journey today. The 207 between White City and Hayes By-Pass, will be replaced by the new routemaster.

  @londontonight - ITV London Tonight
  

  7:48 am Dec 9, 2011