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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Dave Hill

On the (bendy) buses

Hello, I'm in Sutton. I'm sipping a frothy coffee I had to order in a foreign language. I've just eaten an over-priced pastry. The music is cool jazz. Bet you'll guess what brand of establishment has been blessed with my custom. Also, I've just noticed that my latest piece for Cif went live this morning. Near the end it says:

I like Boris's ambition to have more buses double-staffed, and if his new bus turns out to be as good as he's promised it might be worth what Boris Watch reckons are its escalating development costs. But a beautiful vision of London's bus service future that he and I might share – cleaner, greener, smoother and thieving-free – will not come cheap, especially if it's to carry the same if not higher numbers of passengers and fares aren't going to continue rising steeply.

It says other things at the beginning.

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