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Question to the European Commission on London double-decker buses
September 25, 2007 12:00 AM
By Sarah Ludford in European Commission
By Sarah Ludford in European Commission
Sarah Ludford (ALDE ). - I think my question is well-timed, as just today the Commission has published its Green Paper on urban mobility.
I cannot expect the Commission to address my personal sense of loss that the iconic double-decker London Routemaster bus has been replaced by these low-level continental-type 'bendy' buses (or 'articulated' buses, as the Commission put it), but I am grateful for his reference to various pieces of EU legislation which ought to apply.
Could I ask him actually to make contact with the Mayor of London and Transport for London to investigate why these buses have a 75% worse accident rate than other buses, and to examine whether these directives are being properly applied in the UK, and specifically in London?
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