Boris plan to bring back Routemaster ‘non starter’

Johnson: Routemaster promise

Experts on bus design and production have cast doubt over Boris Johnson’s pledge to build a new Routemaster if he is elected mayor of London on May 1.

In his transport manifesto, the Tory candidate pledges to scrap London’s 340 articulated buses and launch a competition to design a new Routemaster.

But experts interviewed by Transit suggested that it was a promise he could not deliver. A senior executive with a UK bus builder said a new Routemaster could not be certified, and...