King of the road?  The mayor of London has unveiled his answer
the the bendy bus. But will it take us forwards or backwards?
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David Wimsett/UPPA- Photoshot  London is probably going to get a
new bus designed by Aston Martin and Norman Foster. You couldn't
make it up. Boris Johnson is impaling himself on the bendy bus
issue and will undoubtedly come a cropper.  Bendy buses are a
non-issue that ridiculously became the main debate in the
mayoral election because of the failure of either side to
present meatier topics in a digestible way. Boris should have
quietly forgotten his promise to replace the bendy bus, or
ensured it was stalled in the myriad of difficulties which it
will undoubtedly face.  Instead, Johnson is pressing ahead into
the quicksand without realising that this will rebound back on
him in a big way, and the reality of introducing a new bus with
a retro design that ill suits it for today's streets at vast
expense could be his undoi