London's Failed Buses - The Bendy Bus

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MatStuff

2 ай бұрын

thanks to whoever owns those videos and clips I forgot lol
also DONT comment lean and bop or you banned innit

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@MatStuff 2 ай бұрын

forgot to mention abt the ex glasgow wright fusions but whatever enjoy

@VehiclesWithJacob4454317 Ай бұрын

i love fusions sm

@Icecreamtruckofdoom 19 күн бұрын

There's one failed bus you forgot the trailer bus

@kieranstravels 2 ай бұрын

We makin it out of Brixton with this one 🔥🔥🔥🔥🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️

@MatStuff 2 ай бұрын

@arthurreeder8451 Ай бұрын

I was coming home once and had an apparition! I thought I saw a bendy bus on the Isle of Wight!!!! But reality came in and I found out I was not dreaming. I have no idea who ever thought it a good idea, but they were here for a short time. Our local newspaper, The County Press, had a great cartoon drawer. I mentioned this to him and he did a superb cartoon of bendy buses on the Island all tied in knots on our tiny winding roads.

@utter_cringe Ай бұрын

I loved the bendy buses, they were awesome, I used to have bendy bus toys and everything.

@mindthegapplease3840 Ай бұрын

I've got 3 Mercedes-Benz Bendy Buses as models toys. #LoveBendyBuses.

@keithhardy8513 Ай бұрын

"Bendy buses" identical to these Mercedes Citaros operate perfectly well in Istanbul, Turkey, and despite also built with three doors, fare evasion is NOT an issue ! Says something about some London folk ? 😂😂

@alterman156channel Ай бұрын

The bendy (a.k.a. articulated) buses were not going to work everywhere. We have them here in Westchester County, NY and they have been successful. Some routes in New York City have bendy buses. They probably would have worked in London if they weren't used for routes that go into the central city where the streets are narrow and the turns are sharp.

@michaelbacon561 22 сағат бұрын

I have never travelled on a bendy bus but watching them go past along a bumpy road I can only imagine how uncomfortable they are for those right at the back being jostled up and down until you're sick!

@TheTimmynatoRex Ай бұрын

If the bendy buses weren't removed altogether but instead relocated to other busy routes while the New Routemasters replaced them, we would be having hybrid and electric bendy buses by now.

@MatStuff Ай бұрын

yeah probably

@YaoboyProd2K15 Ай бұрын

The bendy buses in London were just only one type of model, the Citaro C1G.

@Mgameing123 Ай бұрын

Withdrawing the bendy buses was the biggest mistake London did. Imagine how much more capacity and how much faster the 18 would be with bendy buses! The multiple doors thing is fine honestly. Sure people might fare evade but tfl can easily get some revenue control officers to stop this issue. In loads of European cities they have a use all doors to board policy to reduce dwell times.

@ricardotella1864 Ай бұрын

The main problem was that the London streets were too awkward for them. I've seen them get stuck myself and it would cost more to get people to stand in the buses and force people to pay. It was a cool bus, but it just couldn't work. These new-generation double-deckers we're getting do the job well.

@Mgameing123 Ай бұрын

@@ricardotella1864 I know loads of European cities with very awkward streets yet bendies do fine there. I think its just the UK's lack of knowledge about bendy buses which make them question them.

@neulis125 Ай бұрын

@@ricardotella1864 Londons roads are too awkward for double deckers. I can’t believe it-but some of the bridges are too short for them. Overall double deckers were cool buses but they just don’t fit London’s streets

@munaali840 Ай бұрын

they put them on some routes that it didnt suit, there are many routes that could benefit that dont go through central london

@amazingstarzz Ай бұрын

@@ricardotella1864TFL should’ve done a better job at assigning the routes for the bendy buses then

@geraldwagner8739 Ай бұрын

Here in Germany bendy busses are common everywhere.

@alicanharryreilly8353 3 күн бұрын

The 'bendy' buses have now been replaced by a fleet of fifteen former Go Ahead London Volvo B9TL/Wright Gemini 2 double-deckers. The final 'bendy' buses ran in service on Monday 31st October 2022 but a final 'farewell' was arranged by the company on Monday 7th November 2022

@geraldwagner8739 Ай бұрын

The main and real reason for Johnson to ban the bendy busses was that they were GERMAN vehicles and not British!

@MatStuff Ай бұрын

look at Londons buses now

@thetransportlad350 21 күн бұрын

I went on a bendy bus once at a big country house called Wadston Manor. It was a car park shuttle.

@sylviapemba1617 Ай бұрын

r.i.p citaros 2002-2011 Reminds me of the First Yorkshire buses as well

@zippymo672 Ай бұрын

I drove the 29 bendy bus from 2007 to 2011

@WilliamSmith-mx6ze 27 күн бұрын

All the people who don't want to pay their bus fares here praising the bendies...

@Peter-mj6lz Ай бұрын

If they lasted longer we would just have ev/hybrid bendy buses as every bus from its era doesn’t operate in London again.

@MatStuff Ай бұрын

yeah

@Windsor_Intl_Airlines. 20 күн бұрын

me personally i wouldn't get deported for getting stuck on routes

@maritime_history1912 Ай бұрын

Not all bendy buses were gone by 2011, I saw a bendy shuttle bus at Heathrow Airport in Late 2017 but since then I haven’t seen a single one

@MatStuff Ай бұрын

yeah they did have a few at Heathrow. this video was mainly focusing on the London ones

@maritime_history1912 Ай бұрын

@@MatStuff oh ok cool 👍

@neulis125 Ай бұрын

Bendy buses still run, they even have some new ones at Stansted mostly for long-stay and also to move passengers from remote stands to the terminal building

@maritime_history1912 Ай бұрын

@@neulis125 nice 👍

@JaapFilius Ай бұрын

In all honesty, I can not understand why these buses have had so much trouble in London. I have driven them without any trouble for almost 15 years in and around Utrecht in the Netherlands. There are narrow corners and roads as well, but: when a 12 metre bus fits the 18 metre Mercedes bendy bus can take the same corner, including pretty tight ones. I liked to drive them because they are very comfortable. In Switserland they use them to serve lines on mountain roads, including hairpin bends, so I am not joking.... However, their most serious weak point is an overheated engine: engine fires are not a rare event with Mercedes buses. I like to think "it is part of their identity...". And that is a serious problem in London as traffic often comes into "slow motion mode". I wonder have there been 12 metre non-bended buses from Mercedes in London? And when so, was engine fire also a problem with those?

@weeardguy 6 күн бұрын

To be honest though, I'd rather see the rear-axle steering again on articulated buses. The Duvedec's and MB200's did such a great job in navigating even very tight corners just because the rear end basically pushed itself into the corner as well. The modern low-floor buses all lack this (except on the Van Hool double articulated ones of course, but it's a necessity on those) and since their introduction, buses in tight turns now have to wait for eachother to pass, or have to do a more careful approach, where they would be able to pass eachother without a hassle in the past.

@trevorgwelch7412 Ай бұрын

They are properly called : ARTICULATED TRANSIT BUSES .

@MatStuff Ай бұрын

ok mate

@neulis125 Ай бұрын

No, they’re just “articulated buses”, but “bendy bus” is a perfectly acceptable term, no clue where you’re getting transit from

@trevorgwelch7412 Ай бұрын

@@neulis125 I drove buses for 27 years buddy

@jimmytraveller2970 Ай бұрын

Accordion Buses

@trevorgwelch7412 Ай бұрын

@@jimmytraveller2970 Slinky Bus 😎

@malalikesroblox Ай бұрын

0:05 damn

@weeardguy 6 күн бұрын

Yep. The thing I hate about the most of Citaro's (glad they are gone for over a decade now here in my city in The Netherlands). They just had that tendency to 'resonate' after taking a speed-bump or bridge, which was even felt badly when you were sitting close to the front of the bus. That, besides the annoying and slightly deafening hum from the engine did not make me favour these buses at all. But ah well... the Scania Omnilinks were (and still are) an even bigger disaster. The VDL Ambassadors we had were better, but Arriva had chosen for the worst possible doorsystem (sliding doors) that malfunctioned A LOT... When EBS took over, I was not happy to see they had chosen Scania Omnilinks AGAIN... Thank god those are now also becoming a thing of the past and will probably be gone in a few years to come.

@malalikesroblox 5 күн бұрын

I was born in 2014 so the bendyz withdrawn

@EdVanMeyer Ай бұрын

Routemaster from the 60's was the best London Bus ever!!

@joseollero3788 Ай бұрын

En Londres no pegan estos autobuses pueden pegar en NY Chicago los ángeles Madrid paris pero nunca en Londres

@357account 2 ай бұрын

lean and bop

@MatStuff 2 ай бұрын

mods ban him

@357account 2 ай бұрын

it’s stuck in my head im sorry sir

@heckmacbuff Ай бұрын

Get knotted with AI voice.

@rileyludlow961 Ай бұрын

I swore i saw a citaro Gs at city airport in 2017. They definitely wasnt london ones but i think they were some sort of airport shuttle thing like the former luton shuttle buses

@southeasternsqu1dge465 Ай бұрын

the bus lean & bops 💗

@MatStuff Ай бұрын

bro gotta wait for the sequel with the floating NTFL coaches

@CoolTransport 2 ай бұрын

@TESL1.10 Ай бұрын

Baaammbaaclaat this guy went from 900 to 1K in 3 days wthhhhhh lucky bruda

@MatStuff Ай бұрын

fr tyty

@VehiclesWithJacob4454317 Ай бұрын

we love lean and bop

@MatStuff Ай бұрын

@313rail 2 ай бұрын

We took them off you

@McLarenrailss 2 ай бұрын

hooray

@doisti-kun Ай бұрын

I think I never saw a citaro G shaking that much lol

@weeardguy 6 күн бұрын

Than you also have never been to the Waterland (The Netherlands) area ;) . The buslane from Purmerend to Amsterdam crosses over many small bridges that connect to the North-Holland Canal. The Citaro's Arriva used to have all had the same tendency to kind of resonate after taking such a bridge, leading to an annoyingly violent triple shake, even when sat at the front part of the bus.

@TamworthTheOfficial 2 ай бұрын

lean n bop booz

@justask6921 Ай бұрын

Music?

@idontknow12383 Ай бұрын

Lean n Bop

@BusOnDiversion Ай бұрын

I BE MAKING OUT OF THE LONDON BENDY BUS MODEL IN FRONT OF ME WITH THIS ONE🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥

@brigidsingleton1596 Ай бұрын

I used to like the bendy buses - In fact, I like the bendy buses better thsn this robotic narrator... Bye.

@MatStuff Ай бұрын

lol

@JamesNicol-Buses47 Ай бұрын

Lean & Bop

@ethansalmon1515 Ай бұрын

Why did he start with his actual voice then changed it to that annoying AI voice

@MatStuff Ай бұрын

because its easier to edit

@ethansalmon1515 Ай бұрын

@@MatStuffit’s shit mate

@ethansalmon1515 21 күн бұрын

@@MatStuffwell it’s shite

@doomybear7389 Ай бұрын

Funny old world, Bristol bought some of London's bendy buses when they were deemed as much use as a chocolate fireguard, And guess what they were the same down here, another waste of local public money, god know who's got them now?

@SkibiditoiletfromAachen Ай бұрын

Are they still in service there?

@johnrafferty8087 Ай бұрын

Last London route to have them was the 207

@shaunmaxwell9948 Ай бұрын

Abut 2007 The bending buses were scrapped in glasgow They kept a couple on just breaking down But I think that all going now First ' Stagecoach ' MGILLS 2022 R.I.P I think that was the last date