Riding one of the new London SRM Buses 

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Is that not true on every bsu though? Like I was on a packed rail replacement service the other day and I couldn't fit my shoulders in one seat and I'm not exactly massively broad.

The Borismasters will be disposed of shortly, these Volvo based hybrids are a whopping £50,000 cheaper, and carry a similar number of passengers, and actually have better fuel economy, and are still bodied here by Alexander Dennis in Falkirk, and should their be demand, Plaxton at Scarborough. These also will have a longer lifespan, as can be easily provincialised by the aid of a single door conversion, which will add around 4-5 extra seats, and fitment of a manual ramp on the front platform. The Borisbus has been an £800million waste of public funds

craigybus1 They don't look nearly as good though, they look pretty generic imo, at least the new routemasters were different.

I am baffled. Why would Alexander Dennis be bodying a Volvo chassis with a bus body made by Wrightbus of N Ireland? The Borismasters and the SRM's are Wrightbus buses. Not ADL buses!

The staircase also doesn't look as nice.

Me too

Nowadays they seem to be used on bus route No.183 - you can look to see where they are on the London Bus Finder website lvf.io - I tend to search by quoting the bus route number or search on the vehicle number plate. For these buses this begins LJ66 EZ with the last letter varying for each vehicle. To find them all I searched on lvf.io/#LDN|lj66ez* There are also two of these buses (with a different internal seating layout) on bus route No.37, these have the number plates of BV18 YAD and BV18 YAE lvf.io/#LDN|BV18YA* The London bus Finder website will help you find almost all buses in London and also some other towns & cities here in the UK.

I understand it's a route that is well served but it doesn't make sense to keep cutting bus services. I know the traffic is bad but it's so bad that the bus network is diminishing - I suppose it's a loosing battle but in terms of mileage i think TFL should switch to passenger numbers for profit rather than miles operated as you loose more Traffic Mileage per mile than passengers as there's multiple buses on one route.

Is it also true that the 139 route will be extended to Golders Green and be transferred to London Sovereign from Metroline?

Yeah, the 139 will be extended to Golders Green Station (in the current 13 bay I suspect) and will transfer over to London Sovereign. Apparently (from what someone has told me) these SRM's will go onto the 183 and the Gemini 2's and 3's from the 13 will go onto the 139. But, I think they are more likely to put the SRM's on the 139 into the centre of London than on the 183 to be honest with you.

You're probably right. I'd imagine that a lot of brand new bus designs make their debut on a Central London route. I wouldn't be surprised if the Gemini 2s, 3s and SRMs are transferred to the 139. Must mean that London Sovereign will come to Waterloo for the first time (if they've done it before, please correct me).

I'm guessing that when this video was made the bus was fairly new? It seems quite nice inside but wow it sounds very rattly already. I drove double deckers in the mid 90s and brand new Volvo Olympians didn't rattle like this, even our 1989 Leyland Olympians seemed to be much better build quality.. Thankyou for taking the time to video the buses and routes you have.

true, but its only a two door bus

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citytransportinfo I think it’s a half done version of the new route masters because they have stop buttons built into the poles and a back staircase with a back door and this one has normal stop buttons and stairs and door placement and it’s pretty much a normal bus with a route master interior

Hamish Catherwood no

Hamish Catherwood front door onky

And we have Trams in south london

We got most of these but they are really uncommon

I boarded it at the terminus, which was Aldwych, and was lucky that it remained almost empty for the rest of the journey.

ahh k :)

Because their futuristic idea doesn't work.

DANIEL WOODHOUSE the hybrid engine is bigger

There's a 3rd, the volvo b5lhc.

Sorry, meant a 4th there.

I also have information on the b5lhc version, it will come soon, as part of an update about these buses with other unseen footage.

citytransportinfo nice video

thanks Sam :-)

you are not the only person who gets peeved in this way.

thanks :-)

sunroof? no. Not these, although other modern bus designs do have skylights.

This is a bus, not a coach.

On most of London's buses passengers use card readers located next to the bus driver. This is not seen in this film. Also, since in London the buses only charge 'flat' fares, no matter the distance travelled, we do not need to use card readers when alighting from our buses. Thankfully!

By the way this is London, UK not Canada/USA

@@Moshimulations I was aware, an also I was aware thet Londoners don't themselves, use the oyster card. Barclay's does that forthem ith their bank cards, which IMHO makes sense there. The Oyster cards are more for the tourists. As for the comparison, Montreal and region is in the throes of a major construction boom, especaily as concerns the REM (driverless electric trains) which they have not seen the likes of in some 50 years, and he Opus system which I had mentiones is going to be added to and.or replaced with what I would call the Android Opus - not a card but an Android app. The real reason for this is that, unlike London tradition of paying by the distance for most rides, Montreal has been worling with a comibination of one ticket, one ride, or a monthly pass, and a concentric series of 8 zones covering roughtly a 50 mile radius of Mount Royal. However both the REM and the C.I.T.s (regional carriers) need to be able to charge by the distance and on the basisi of other parameters, which the present Opus is not capable of handling. Hence the existing system is truly obsolete and is being gradually replaced. But not all the information is available in English, thanks to Bill 101 and the whole sordid history of "The Quebec Canada Problem", so being fluently bilingual (and with some knowledge of Spanish) some of my words are based on what I have researches in French. Also, from city to city, geography plays a signofocant role, as it does here in Montreal. Montreal is on an island, and in the center of the city is the mountain, and extinct volcano. Added to that the city is sitting on a lot of sizeable underground rivers. so when I see the future Peel station ofr the REM is to be 14 stories undergound in the middle of a huge water cistern, itlooks to me tha what the engineers have in ind is to use all he extensibve dynamiting and digging to serve both the REM and the making of a storm reservoir to play a part in the control of ground water resulting from melling ice, snow and rain until it can be dumped into the St. Lawrence River. Given that Montreal gets a lot of snow in the winter, there is a lot of runoff to be dealt with in the spring, and so defence against flooding is important, not to mention other potential dangers from inadequately managed water. Exit and entry to tht station right in the middle of downtown, will be acompllshed with bauks of high speed elevators, much along the general style of what is known as "The underground city. There are many videos of this on You Tube, but most are either silent (as with the drone footage that has been posted) or in French only, but very well orchestrated. Hence the major fare reform that started last July 1, 2021 and will see many chages ongoing as it all rises from the ground (or goes down into the ground depencing on the places).

@@BrucexfromxCanada Actually, Oyster cards aren't just used by tourists but literally everyone apart from the people who decide on using contactless.

As far as I am aware, SRM buses are no longer in production.

@@CitytransportInfoplus oh alr

TfL prefer traditional roller blinds as until very recently the electronic displays were not as clear or easy to read.

citytransportinfo Thanks for the response. I would think that the latest LED technology would have solved that problem!

@@JeffreyOrnstein TFL are definitely starting to put these in some of their routes, so I suppose that’s a good thing.

Although the bus was going to Golders Green I only travelled from Aldwych to the St Johns Wood / Swiss Cottage area.

too much traffic - too many very slow 20mph (30 km/h) speed limits - closing bus lanes and replacing them with cycle lanes - all these make bus travel slow and less popular.

@@CitytransportInfoplus Hong Kong has a different case😂 The government discourage people to cycle in busy city. Private cars need to pay high tax. Bus routes are well designed. They urge people to take more public transport.

frozen screen

@@alanjerome9631 what?

sometimes London is like that!

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Also, London has so many double deckers but less passenger. The buses are quite empty.

No it isn't, because this one doesn't have the back door

No it’s son of Routemaster

Indeed so... because of the dysfunctional way the franchise system works, Londoners are subsiding buses and other transports in Paris, France. Its a shame that TfL are not able to operate bus services in Paris so that the profits can be used to help fund the fares freeze and investments here in London!

The same up north, my local rail is half owned by the Dutch state.

no it is worse

What's wrong with them?

***** Fake hybrid combined with a tried and tested design that has failed. Not to mention the rear's horrific.

Surely they've done some internal work to counter the issues found on the Borismaster?

+Alex Berry Nope, these are actually worse. Still haven't put in opening windows, the bus is really dark. No back windows, and the one on the upper deck is partial.

Marshell George I don't know where do you get the idea that the Volvo system was fake. This is called parallel hybrid, which is just a different hybrid system. It is as hybrid as anything else. AFAIK the type is the best performing in the real world both from reliability and fuel economy standpoints amongst the existing hybrid bus types working in London. Its preference by London operators over the last few years simply reflect this fact.