Not much worse than the top deck of a bus in peak summer
Those stupid Boris buses are modern day torture devices and for some reason, it doesn’t matter which part of London I’m in, I always end up having to get on one.
Doesn’t help that there are idiots that shut the windows
Fucking useless air cooling – it just doesn’t work. Either fit proper air conditioning (like literally every other civilised country) or failing that give us opening windows bigger than a letterbox. The amount of times in summer that I get an Uber rather than the bus, because I don’t want to arrive at my destination a sweaty mess.
We’re the world’s sixth largest economy and London is one of the greatest cities in the world – why we piss around with these half-measures for the sake of a little cost saving or misguided green initiative is beyond me. It’s embarrassing.
Oh, opening the worlds smallest windows to the similarly hot outside doesn’t do anything?
If they’re anything like southeastern rail when I complain, they’ll just fob you off with some lame reply
Apparently the cost to install a/c would equate to something like 2p extra per bus ticket which is why they haven’t installed them
just to compound the discomfort, the bus I took the other day had a sunroof!
They try to have both AC *and* windows that open. You have to choose one or the other. Both doesn’t work, and wastes energy.
If the weather is warm enough that the bus is unbearable then it’s perfect for cycling. Grab the nearest Lime bike and go. The motor does all the work so you won’t get sweaty. Plus you don’t have to stop at reds so you’ll get to your destination faster too.
Has the mayor of London made any public statements about this? I know there was some chatter around the conditions inside the driver cabin but what about the lack of proper AC in the bus itself.
Used to take the bus from Angel to the City, and the drivers would have the heat on full blast in the mornings. Should be a termination event
London bus heat complaints, have you experienced a packed Victoria line during a heatwave or even a normal day by any chance?
On the hottest day this year for some inane reason I was on a bus like the one in the picture for 5 minutes. The Driver should have stopped the bus and walk off- to a better future. They looked well overheated and no one deserves to live like that. The buses are poorly designed heat trap (I got off way before my stop and walked- I felt the journey was doing me damage)-I’m not sure who lays claim to fame for designing those pieces of absolute shit but they should be in hiding.
The cheapest and simplest option would be to have a window that slides down at the front of the bus like the old route masters. Failing that an airscoop might be able to be fitted on top of the bus, low bridges allowing. This will only work when the bus is moving, obviously.
I used a Boris bus during the July heatwave, no air con, bottom deck standing like sardines for 40 minutes, buckets of sweat… I thought I was going to die it must have been well over 40°C. Absolute disgrace, why is this country so anti-air con? It’s really not that hard
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I know to avoid the bus during summer.
Put Thomas Heatherwick in the stocks imo
Those shitty Routemaster buses are the worst
Not much worse than the top deck of a bus in peak summer
Those stupid Boris buses are modern day torture devices and for some reason, it doesn’t matter which part of London I’m in, I always end up having to get on one.
Doesn’t help that there are idiots that shut the windows
Fucking useless air cooling – it just doesn’t work. Either fit proper air conditioning (like literally every other civilised country) or failing that give us opening windows bigger than a letterbox. The amount of times in summer that I get an Uber rather than the bus, because I don’t want to arrive at my destination a sweaty mess.
We’re the world’s sixth largest economy and London is one of the greatest cities in the world – why we piss around with these half-measures for the sake of a little cost saving or misguided green initiative is beyond me. It’s embarrassing.
Oh, opening the worlds smallest windows to the similarly hot outside doesn’t do anything?
If they’re anything like southeastern rail when I complain, they’ll just fob you off with some lame reply
Apparently the cost to install a/c would equate to something like 2p extra per bus ticket which is why they haven’t installed them
just to compound the discomfort, the bus I took the other day had a sunroof!
They try to have both AC *and* windows that open. You have to choose one or the other. Both doesn’t work, and wastes energy.
If the weather is warm enough that the bus is unbearable then it’s perfect for cycling. Grab the nearest Lime bike and go. The motor does all the work so you won’t get sweaty. Plus you don’t have to stop at reds so you’ll get to your destination faster too.
Has the mayor of London made any public statements about this? I know there was some chatter around the conditions inside the driver cabin but what about the lack of proper AC in the bus itself.
Used to take the bus from Angel to the City, and the drivers would have the heat on full blast in the mornings. Should be a termination event
London bus heat complaints, have you experienced a packed Victoria line during a heatwave or even a normal day by any chance?
On the hottest day this year for some inane reason I was on a bus like the one in the picture for 5 minutes. The Driver should have stopped the bus and walk off- to a better future. They looked well overheated and no one deserves to live like that. The buses are poorly designed heat trap (I got off way before my stop and walked- I felt the journey was doing me damage)-I’m not sure who lays claim to fame for designing those pieces of absolute shit but they should be in hiding.
The cheapest and simplest option would be to have a window that slides down at the front of the bus like the old route masters. Failing that an airscoop might be able to be fitted on top of the bus, low bridges allowing. This will only work when the bus is moving, obviously.
I used a Boris bus during the July heatwave, no air con, bottom deck standing like sardines for 40 minutes, buckets of sweat… I thought I was going to die it must have been well over 40°C. Absolute disgrace, why is this country so anti-air con? It’s really not that hard
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