The London Traveler

Transport for London (TfL) has now announced the two winners of the competition to design the new Routemaster. One is a joint venture between Aston Martin (who obviously think the credit crunch make buses a better bet than luxury cars!) and Foster + Partners, and the other was designed by Capoco, a firm which designs buses, coaches and trucks.
I suspect a lot of people will be disappointed. Neither of these creations actually looks like the much-loved RM. In particular, the radiator of the Capoco design looks very squashed – not the friendly ‘face’ of the traditional bus, but a pudgy …read more

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Boris Johnson promised us Routemasters. And that’s what we thought we would get. (At least, that’s what most people thought he was saying. But now he’s saying no, he didn’t, he said different buses from the Bendybus.  Hmmm.)
No, what we’ll get is new Routemasters.
The Mayor has announced two competitions for designing the new Routemaster – one for amateurs (‘imagine’), and one for professional design firms (‘design’).  The amateur competition is just a bit of fluff really – prizes are up to £1,000, but they’re being awardedfor ‘fun’ and ‘creativity’.
But the professional competition might come up with a design for ‘a …read more

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