lovely shiny buses...

[Dan U]

with the heating still on upstairs! WTF!

someone also needs to explain the concept of big areas of glass = sauna conditions. not helped by fuck all windows and the fricking heating on!

if i want a sauna i'd rather do it in a place of my choosing and not in my work clothes!

rant ends.

 

[RaverDrew]

Apparantly according to the drivers I've spoken to about this, they have to have the heating on, otherwise the engines overheat and they break down.

 

[Dan U]

Apparantly according to the drivers I've spoken to about this, they have to have the heating on, otherwise the engines overheat and they break down.

you cant make this stuff up can you! proper ministry of shit design..

"you mean it gets warm in london? doh! back to the drawing board boys!"

BRING BACK THE ROUTEMASTERS - with apologies to those folk with wheelchairs

 

[PacificOcean]

Upstairs on routemasters was still like a sauna.

 

[HackneyE9]

Half the time all the poxy windows are shut, and people give you evils if you open them - like, excuse me, there's 70 people in an airtight greenhouse with the sun shining, so sorry I want to open the sliver of oxygen intake....

 

[dogmatique]

Upstairs on routemasters was still like a sauna.

At least they had windows at the front which provided a good through draught (when they hadn't been sealed shut).

The new pull out windows provide so little ventilation as to be pointless.

I've all but given up getting the bus all the way to work as it's now taking an hour and ten minutes to get from Streatham Hill to Regent Street. In the boiling sun with the heating on, I'd rather get the tube for 15 minutes and the bus up the hill. Shame.

 

[marty21]

i'm so glad that i don't have a long commute

 

[milesy]

Apparantly according to the drivers I've spoken to about this, they have to have the heating on, otherwise the engines overheat and they break down.

they seem to have that design fault on all the new buses...can't somebody tell the designers to sort it aht!!!?

 

[Dan U]

At least they had windows at the front which provided a good through draught (when they hadn't been sealed shut).

thats the difference. front on air circulation!

 

[ada]

Originally Posted by RaverDrew
Apparantly according to the drivers I've spoken to about this, they have to have the heating on, otherwise the engines overheat and they break down.

It's not quite that:

1. They have to have air from outside circulating over the engines to keep them cool. The circulation system then pumps that air through the bus.

2. In winter, they also switch the heating bit of the system on, so the air circulating inside the bus is warmed.

3. In summer, the heating bit is off. But, the air drawn into the circulation system from outside is warm already and then gets further heated up by going over the hot engines, so it ends up being hot air.

So the problem is that
a) The engine air circulation system is linked to the air-inside-bus system.
b) They don't appear to have a 'cooling' option, to cool down the summer's hot air in the same way as they heat up the winter cold air.

Of course, my pendantry doesn't change the fact that it's gross.

 

[butterfly child]

We were on the Leonardo Express yesterday, which runs from Rome's Termini station to the airport... it was about 26 degrees outside, and they had the fucking heating on

It was so hot, even the old ladies were moaning (and you know what old ladies are like, coats and jumpers on even on the hottest days)

They did have a moan at the driver about it, but he wouldn't have given a toss, bloody whippersnapper in his shades

I've been on plenty of buses in the summer which don't have the heating/circulation problem, so is it something particular to certain models?

 

[Crispy]

Tell you what the best thing about the buses in Rome was - exhausts at top deck level. So simple! Yet so useful!

 

[PacificOcean]

Tell you what the best thing about the buses in Rome was - exhausts at top deck level. So simple! Yet so useful!

Wouldn't all those fumes pumping in be leathal?

 

[butterfly child]

Tell you what the best thing about the buses in Rome was - exhausts at top deck level. So simple! Yet so useful!

I don't think they all have them though.

My personal favourites are the dinky electric buses, they're like something out of toytown.

 

[Roadkill]

Any bus is going to be hot upstairs because of the glass area, but I used to think routemasters were a bit more comfortable than others in hot weather, perhaps 'cos of the open platform and the opening front windows.

Now, any chance of Ken giving us a 'Heritage Route' in Greenwich so I can commute on a proper bus?

 

[shave]

Shock - I got on a 35 the other day which had AIR CONDITIONING

Nice.

 

[Fingers]

got on a bus in oxford circus the otehr day and h ad to get off after two stops. the driver told me they ahd to get engineers out to turn the heating off

 

[Zappomatic]

Noticed that the new buses on the 196 also have air conditioning - actual air cooling unit above the stairs, not just the usual system of air from outside being forced through the bus by powerful fans at the back.

 

[Zappomatic]

Sadly I don't ususally use the 196 - I'm stuck with the 148 with seats painfully upright and close together, and heating usually on in the summer.

 

[laptop]

my pendantry

SCHOOL BUS WITH CHILDREN PENDANT

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[RaverDrew]

I use the new 196's nearly every day and I can confirm that they simply don't work at all.

 

[Guineveretoo]

I rode a 38 bus today, which was unbelievably and unbearably hot. And that was without an upstairs!

It was truly horrible, but I persevered (in my puddle of sweat) because the alternative was going underground and getting stuck in some tunnel in the same heat and at least, psychologically, I knew I wasn't trapped on the bus in that heat, which made it almost bearable and I stuck it out until Victoria.

It was really awful, though!

 

[Zappomatic]

I use the new 196's nearly every day and I can confirm that they simply don't work at all.

Judging by the fans on the back of the bus, it doesn't look like most of them have the aircon switched on, or are set to some ultra-economy mode where it only activates once people people literally start to melt.

 

[salem]

My desk overlooks the terminus of the 24 in South End Green (i.e top of big hill) and almost everytime one of the new buses gets in the drivers are round the back with a watering can cooling the engine down. More crap design I presume.

I remember the drivers used to go around with the front door open too on a hot day. Did wonders to cool the bus down.

 

[Dan U]

I remember the drivers used to go around with the front door open too on a hot day. Did wonders to cool the bus down.

we didnt have health and safety then

simple but effective