Buses are fucking shit

>>1026955
jesus english police are fat as fuck

>>1026955
The buses here use CNG and the drivers either take a bus or use a company car that runs on e85.
No wonder more and more people are cycling to work there.

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>>1026955
Buses are a cheap, safe, comfortable form of transport if done right.

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Modern buses are fully electric, hybrid or have very efficient engines.

>>1027105

>Very efficient
>3 MPG instead of 2.5 on average

wow

>>1027115
Buses have gone from having 10.5 litre engines in the 90s to 6.7 litre Euro 5 engines today. The change in efficiency is huge.

However, that is a battery powered bus - so the only pollution is made at the power station and then once more in the scrapyard.

I just spent a week in central london and while i primarily used the tube to get around i used busses often as well.

It was pretty comfy

>>1026955
>want to go 1/4 mile in less than 10 minutes?
buy a fucking bicycle, dipshit

>>1026955
if my main route wasn't a dual carriageway A road, i'd ride my bike
>>1027115
US gallon around 4-5mpg, imperial gallon 6-7mpg with stop/start, and low speed hybrid.

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>>1027105
>tfw all pro-bus people spout this
>especially the electric bus meme
>tfw I'm always hearing about prototype battery buses and whatnot
>tfw we have lots of very new and shiny hybrid buses and they're still noisy and smelly af
>tfw trolleybuses been around for a century and people just behave like they don't exist and it's all HURR WE NEED STINKING DIESEL BUSES UNTIL WE HAVE BATTERIES

We're also having a trial with some kind of battery-powered buses that have overhead charging stations at the end of the line
>wow
>much efficien
>so improve
>will ride

>>1026955
>>1027122
>1/4 mile in less than 10 minutes
>bicycle
Mate, it's 400m. A 5 minute walk. You don't even need bicycle for that.

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>>1027125
The Borismaster has a tiny 4.5l engine which runs only to generate current and charge batteries. The drive system is electric motors. This is incredibly efficient. Furthermore, there are full battery buses in operation and more hybrid versions. All are less smelly and less noisy than the old buses, when I see an old ALX400 these days it is deafening and smelly.

Old ALX400:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxJxWdIp4jE

New Evoseti:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2pfZIXW6hg

More old ALX400 noise:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_oCncXbb3M

>>1026955
>Having such a shitty public transportation system that you can't reach anywhere in the city you want in the mid night

>>1026955
>>terminals attract crime and people who should have been committed to a psychiatric hospital
Is it really true in the land of the free? In Poland they are used by normal people (though sometimes you get stinky people, but it's 1 time a month tops and I just wait for another bus).

>>1027207
here in burger land they're just used by homeless guys and guys selling bud
everybody who actually rides the bus just kinda stands outside the shelter and fiddles with their phones

>>1027207
>the land of the free
Sorry I see my mistake now
*in GB

>>1027208
Just don't put anything other than stand there

>>1027208

Thats the same with your taxi stands in new york. And your metro. And your ferry stations.

Hell i have been to afganistan and the only time i have ever felt like i needed a gun, outside of removing kebabs, was in jamaica NY. The bronx was literally comfy.

>>1027207
Even here in Spain bus stations attract the fucking scum of humanity. It's really amazing, it's not like regular trains (non-HSR) are significantly more expensive, but it's like at train stations there's middle and lower-class people mostly but they're generally quite normal, yet you go to the bus station and it's like you crossed into another dimension. A terrible, smelly dimension full of junkies and shitskins. It really amazes me that people would go through this to save 4 or 5 euros on a 30 euro train ticket.

>>1027288
>>1027277
>>1027208
>>1026955
What's with all these Western Europe/American cities

>>1026955
Buses could transport lots of car-maniac jackoffs every day in the city. Plus, it could be slow only because of the massive amount of cars on the streets.

>>1027311
niggers

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London buses are A E S T H E T I C

>>1027503
Other than the fugly headlights, that's one sexy bus indeed.

>>1027104
>>1027105
>>1027119
London is a good example of well planned and extravagantly funded buses and public transport. Rest of UK is a fucking disaster for local buses due to deregulation.

Buses are shit but the Underground is a million times shitter. Regional buses are atrocious compared to regional light railway like Tyne and Wear Metro (GOAT)

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>>1027503

>>1027701
Deregulated buses work amazing in HK, you brits must do something wierd to make buses not work.

>>1027913
Rail protectionism, absence of an integrated well-placed minibus policy, a mess over coach buses.
It works yes. Not that I would call amazing from this side of the harbor.

>>1026955
>that exhaust location

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>>1027913
Buses outside of London are also amazing. But they are quite expensive because there is no government control on the fares and the companies know they can put the prices sky high because many people have no alternative.

I love the English buses. They run 24 hours, go almost everywhere, and the most amazing thing to me (as an American) is the the drivers actually make change.

>>1029911
Ha! A bus driver carrying money in most big US cities would need an armour-plated cage with machine gun emplacements around it.

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>>1029913
Cash is dying. Smartcards, credit cards, and Apple/Android Pay is replacing it.

>>1029940
Good. That should make boarding faster.

>>1029940
For some reasons Android Pay always fail me in McDonald's and KFC and I have to resort to use smartcards

I can ride all Busses for free in my town because I'm a student here. Its super comfy, but a bike is still faster most of the time.

>>1027162
Wowo, amazing. You completely missed the point.

ELETRIC BUSES HAVE BEEN AROUND FOR A FUCKING CENTURY AND PEOPLE LIKE YOU KEEP ACTING AS IF THEY DON'T FUCKING EXIST.

>>1029998
THANK YOU for dropping this truth bomb ffs

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>>1029998
The battery technology is only good now though so your point is invalid.

>>1031414
>battery technology is...good now

lol

Our current batteries, even LiPo, are fucking _useless_

>>1026968
The only place I ever see police cars is the McDonalds drive thru.

Buses are just cages you have to sit next to niggers on.

>>1027503
Only London would buy an expensive double-decker bus with less capacity than a regular European non-articulated bus.

>>1031681
I saw one the other day walking along with his tit on his head and it took me a good couple of seconds to even realise what it was, I hadn't seen one for so fucking long.

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>>1031688
London is civilized and cares about public transport being good. Quality > Quantity desu senpai.

>>1031688

>less capacity than a european non-articulated bus

I see you /n/iggers state this a lot. It seats more. In fact it seats nearly double of what even a rigid bus in hamburg does.

So what the fuck are ya'll talking about?

>>1027701
Edinburgh buses are pretty good.

>>1026955
>posting on 4chan and shaming people for mental illness in the same post