I'm sat on a London bus with its exhaust smoking like a chimney, and some it blowing back into the bus through the gaps in the closed doors.

Told the driver, and he said it was fine.

People sat on the lower deck have their mouths covered but very few people seemed bothered to get off, myself included.





by I56Hduzz7

27 comments

  1. Bus full of smoke? London’s way of saying “your commute just got spicy.”

  2. Yeah definitely not just fine like the driver said. I’m not sure why they refuse to admit something is wrong, I don’t imagine they’d be in trouble

  3. Report this to the police using ~~111~~ 101.

    It’s probably worth reporting the bus driver to TFL as well

  4. Probably on par with standing on a Victoria Line platform for 10 minutes.

  8. Been on a few busses like that. They don’t give a shit.

  9. it’s doing a regen, they’re supposed to do this. unfortunately it kicks out a lot of smoke and it does smell bad. there’s a button that can switch it on but you can’t turn it off once it’s started. also at times it will just happen by itself. mechanically there’s nothing to worry about. normally when the buses are in the depot and they’re running they’d do this

  11. The bus is in regen mode. Cant switch it off and u just have to wait it out. It stinks in the drivers cab as well. The bus is indeed fine and is not on fire, its just toxic to inhale. These LT busses do it all the time and theres nothing the driver can do. If he calls it in he will just be told to continue driving by both the ibus as well as engineers.

  12. I was on the 76 last week when one of the windows on the lower deck completely shattered and glass chunks started to fall into the bus every time it went over a bump. No one said or did anything for at least two stops. Ah London.

  13. This is the result of Boris btw. These buses are shit designs and need to be binned.

  14. I was on the same model of bus a few weeks ago around Hackney, it was much more filled with smoke than this. Thought it was a DIY barbecue in the back lol. The driver said it was fine but that we should get off if we “have an allergy to smoke”. It did not seem safe so I left. The smoke continued to billow even when it wasn’t moving.

  16. honestly mate outside of reporting the vehicle to TFL or maybe to the operator there isn’t much you can do and i’m sure TFL would refer the query to arriva if it’s the 76 you were on and you’d probably get the same answer as the driver gave you. the police won’t do anything. i’ve been asked by them sometimes in traffic about it by some officers passing by or sitting in traffic, they just crack on after that.

  21. I suspect there is something wrong with the engine they use to charge their batteries, or the exhaust for the fumes from it. I’d send the video to TfL.

    These busses, despite being called zero emission, have nowhere near the range they need on battery and use a petrol or diesel (I forget which) generator to charge the battery when needed. They are surprisingly polluting then. Like everything BJ was involved with, they are shit.

  25. Literally how the Nazis executed their victims in the early days of the Holocaust. You don’t want to just sit there filming to say the least.

  26. I don’t like that model (?) of bus. I see it on the 32 route.

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