London’s New Red Bus
The New York City Taxi, The San Francisco Trolly, The Oscar Meyer Weiner Mobile…. every 60 years or so one of these iconic pieces of transportation is up for a re-design. This year it was time for the Routmaster, the archetypal red double-decker bus that cruises through London with amazing agility.
Determined not to suffer the fate of the the classic NYC yellow Check cab, the city of London engaged a variety of UK coach builders to deliver design proposals in 2008 to improve on the classic Routmaster. The winning Wrightbus design pays homage to the classic while still looking forward… this handsome lad is quite asymmetrical.
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