交通 照片 (20) 英國倫敦新巴士 New London bus routemaster photo

The New Bus for London is a planned 21st Century replacement of the iconic Routemaster as a bus built specifically for use in London. It is to be built by Wrightbus, and will feature the 'hop-on hop-off' rear open platform of the original Routemaster, but will meet the requirements for modern buses to be fully accessible, and will incorporate an electric hybrid driveline. A prototype is expected to be on the road by late 2011, with the first buses due to enter service in early 2012, in time for the 2012 Summer Olympics.
The original Routemaster was a standard London bus type with a rear open platform and crewed by both a driver and conductor. It was withdrawn from service (except for two Heritage Routes) at the end of 2005 by London Mayor Ken Livingstone, in favour of a fully accessible one person operated modern fleet, none of which feature a rear open platform. The withdrawal of the Routemaster became an issue of the 2008 London mayoral election, and the new Mayor Boris Johnson was subsequently elected Mayor pledging as part of his campaign to introduce a new Routemaster. Following an open design competition held during 2008, at the end of 2009 Wrightbus were awarded the contract to build the bus, announcing their final design in May 2010.
The design for the new bus features three doors and two staircases to be able to use a rear platform and allow accessible boarding. Unlike the original standard RM Routemaster used in central London, the new bus has a conventional flat front end and a rear platform that can be closed when not needed, rather than the protruding bonneted 'half cab' design and permanently open platform, to allow the bus to be operated by one driver in off peak times.
Mayoral candidate Boris Johnson backed the Autocar / Capoco design in principle and suggested that he would hold a formal design competition to develop a new Routemaster if he was elected London mayor in 2008. He won the election on 4 May 2008 and two months later, on 4 July, he announced the New Bus For London competition.
An initiative of Transport for London, the competition invited anybody, both companies and members of the public, to submit ideas for consideration. The competition would have two categories, an Image category for general ideas and concepts, and a Design category, for more detailed proposals. In both categories, entries could be either "whole bus" submissions, or proposals for parts of the bus.
The Imagine category called for the submission of imaginative ideas for a red double-decker bus with a rear open platform, and one other entrance/exit with doors.[7] The Design category called for detailed designs of a low floor red double-decker bus with at least one internal staircase, a rear open platform, and one other entrance/exit with doors, to be crewed by a driver and conductor, and be suitable for carrying 72 passengers seated and standing. The designs were required to satisfy a table of mandatory and suggested design specifications, and "be practical and economic and capable of being put into mass production".[8][9] The competition was to feature cash prizes for entrants, with £25,000 for the winner, and smaller awards for good ideas.
Some initial proposals gained media attention after being unveiled during October 2008, namely a "smiley bus" known as the H4 (designed by the H4 Group).[10] Future Systems offered a "space age" alternative powered by hydrogen. [11] Foster and Partners submitted a glass roofed design.[12] The competition was closed, and the winners announced on 19 December 2008. On closing, the competition had received 225 entries to the Design category, and 475 entries for the Imagine category.[13] The competition entrants were judged by a panel of six, made up of a Tfl board member, two Tfl managers, two London Buses managers, and an independent judge, a former commercial director of Alexander Dennis.[13]
The £25,000 prize for winning the whole bus Design category was shared between two entries, one from Capoco Design, a bus, coach and truck design firm, and one from a joint submission made by architects Foster and Partners and automotive company Aston Martin

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[RunninGor]

The music is soooo annoying!

[evantis121]

@dambusta2 Yeah, good luck with digging them out of the scrapyard. Move on for fucks sake.

[Whiteshirtloosetie]

Dignity of ladies in dresses and guys in kilts walking down the stairs?!? I still can't make my mind up if I like it or not. At present I find the design very uncomfortable to the eye. Will I like it when I get use to it? Don't know! I remember when young I thought RT's were so much better looking than Routemasters, then supported Routemasters later on. Plus what are they going to name it? Routemaster 2? No! I think it needs it's own identity.

[r4nd0m01793]

i like the windows round the stairs but the front itself is gastly.

[EpicNetworkMusic]

@datnotfair nah it looks futuristic n stuff it looks really dope =)

[datnotfair]

The front is hideous. just the front like any other bus. I would't even try to replace the routemaster.

[carpdiem88]

@dambusta2 Why should you care? You dont even live in London, but conveniently placed "Up North" somewhere. Every pessimistic morons on here should get with the times & quit living in the past.