History - UK - London Retiring Its Red Routemaster Buses
Londoners Bid Farewell to Famous Red Routemaster Buses; Last Full Day of Service After 50 YearsLONDON,UK -Associated Press, by JILL LAWLESS -Dec 8, 2005: -- After half a century, London's red Routemaster buses are rattling into retirement. Thousands of fans said farewell to the hop-on, hop-off buses Thursday, the last full day of regular service for the icon... The final Routemaster was leaving central London just after noon, bound south of the river to a bus garage in Brixton...
New: Home on the buses
Channel 4 News -8 Dec 2005: -- A London company called Double Decker Living is making good use of redundant buses: it is fitting them out as luxury camper vans to provide short-term housing for homeless people and for overnight accommodation for key workers on call, such as NHS staff... The buses, can house up to five people; they have been fitted with kitchen areas, bathrooms, solar panels to generate power and recycling bins...
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