Bye Bye Old Trolley Buses

Started by Lil Me, Apr 20 08 08:11

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stretchedout

The new buses are way to costly.  A mil each!  Bring back the old ones, like this but painted white:

 
C'mon, the city is sleeping!

van_guy

 P.C. wrote:
[em]i like double deckers for some reason I don't know why Victoria has them and Vancouver doesn't. Anybody know why?
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I'm not sure....but I think it was mainly a part of their tourist and sightseeing thing, although they are a part of their regular transit fleet.  Victoria was often touted as being similar in atmostphere to parts of jolly old England (after all, it is named after the queen).  I've never been on one.
 
I believe the quote is something like "more british than the british"

In part the double decker busses are not designed to go very fast (i.e. rather top heavy) as such they are fine for Victoria because that fricken fracken blue haired, prune gobbling, raisin headed granny has forgotten that the gas pedal is the long skinny one - and that click click click sound is her left turn signal not her damn pace maker tends to drive slowly.

Or so I have heard.

 
 
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness (Mark Twain)

Michel


Sportsdude

yeah I wanted to take a double decker in Victoria but the bus said....



... out of service. aka out to lunch.
 
"We can't stop here. This is bat country."

Gopher

Ah, they're lovely, aren't they?
A fool's paradise is better than none.

Sportsdude

indeed. I have yet to take one though.  
"We can't stop here. This is bat country."

Gopher

I recommend that you have your maiden trip sitting upstairs on a very windy day and following a route which has several sharp bends.  
A fool's paradise is better than none.

Michel


Sportsdude

lol they've even phased out those classic looking ones in London.  
"We can't stop here. This is bat country."

Michel


Sportsdude

 Michel wrote:
That's why we have those, some dinosaurs feed on old british crap in English Canada. lol *applying for a refugee status to France*  

lol i know, I took canadian history post confederation. "We must be with the Empire!" "I am british" - Sir A MacDonald.


 
"We can't stop here. This is bat country."

purelife

There's a lot of privacy up top of those double decker busses for those unmentionable activities.  LOL  

Gopher

I've seen them turned into homes.
A fool's paradise is better than none.

Michel


Michel


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