David Gray's pictures of the week 26-3-2007

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This week's pictures are about London buses. Most of them feature the old Routemasters, though these now only run on just a single tourist route in the city. Why, oh why were they ever scrapped ? The red Routemaster was not just one of London's great icons. Above all else, it worked. The rot started, of course, years ago with the introduction of driver-only buses. Whatever excuse was given at the time, the real reason was to save money. And now we have the bendy buses, which not only get stuck but have also shown an alarming tendency to catch fire. The story of London's buses in recent years is, sadly, the same as for so much else in contemporary Britain. Management consultants and businessmen move in, fuck up everything apart from their own pay packets and then tell us there's been a marvellous improvement. No more room on top for them, I wish. Ding ! Ding !

A toy Number 15 in March 2007 (image 2718-2)

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