Monday 2 February 2009

Bus slogan generator


Generate your own slogan here.

Via Harry Haddock.

My latest blogpost: Bus slogan generatorTweet this! Posted by Mark Wadsworth at 09:05

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15 comments:

marksany said...

I'm inspired - here's mine.

http://marksany.blogspot.com/2009/02/buses-are-great.html

2 February 2009 at 09:37
Anonymous said...

(1) Rosa Parkes died in 2005 - so it should read "If Rosa Parkes had been white, would she have..." (2)The issue of Parkes daring to sit anywhere on the bus was related, of course, to the law. For all the reach of the so-called equality "industry" whites suffer no de jure exclusion from the back of the bus. (3) Parkes's name hardly needs to be invoked in relation to criminality - in 1994 (when she was 81) she was attacked by a black robber.

2 February 2009 at 09:42
Mark Wadsworth said...

CB, I have amended. I checked and her surname appears to have been without an "e".

2 February 2009 at 10:39
Vindico said...

My effort http://vindicovindico.blogspot.com/2009/02/my-other-car.html

2 February 2009 at 13:11
Anonymous said...

Thanks for putting me right re spelling. Rather more to the point, I feel, is "If Rosa Parks was alive today and wanted to get anywhere in less than 3 hours, would she take a bus?" One of my favourite letters to my local newspaper began: "I cannot understand why your correspondents keep on about using public transport. My sister once went on a bus and she told me it was unbelievably slow and extraordinarily expensive. Yours etc."

2 February 2009 at 14:08
DBC Reed said...

Buses would be less threatening and quicker if they restored conductors: this was a recent-ish campaign pledge by Ken Livingstone, I seem to remember. Might provide a job opportunity for large-ish aggressive people who are generally seen as the problem on buses.What has Boris to say on the subject (dear to his heart)?Something along the lines of "Yoiks,yaroo, I say you chaps" culled from the Billy Bunter Tries Politics Annual, I expect .

2 February 2009 at 14:11
Anonymous said...

Charlie B

Lord Curzon used a bus just once: he handed the driver sixpence (6d) and asked to be taken to Carlton House Terrace. The driver's response has not been recorded.

2 February 2009 at 14:45
Mark Wadsworth said...

DBC, good point about conductors. So why don't they do it? Boris must at least understand in principle what 'a bus' is, even if he's never been on one.

2 February 2009 at 15:05
Anonymous said...

Why don't they restore conductors? Cost would be my guess. Salary + employers NI and pension + sick/maternity/paternity leave + training + recruitment costs + uniform etc. How much extra revenue would they get from having conductors? Many more passengers? Or would be able to charge higher prices?

2 February 2009 at 16:44
Henry North London 2.0 said...

I have two buses on my blog

Shameless advertising but hey someone has to do it

2 February 2009 at 17:07
Vindico said...

Ed - re cost, how about we restore conductors and cut the salaries/functions of the GLA to compensate? Problem solved.

2 February 2009 at 17:10
DBC Reed said...

@ed said
Perhaps you are not aware ( you may have missed his last 1,200 postings on the subject) but Mark
Wadsworth, and all really cool people, support the provision of transport infrastructure by the self-financing system of land value tax,so that you improve the transport infrastructure,property prices go up and you recoup all your outlay by a tax on the uplift.
Some idea of how much can be raised by this is indicated by the effect of the Fares Fair scheme devised by LVT guru Dave "Mr Fares Fair" Wetzel in the early 1980's ( See Google: Blueprint for a Green London by Tony Gosling).Paying for
conductors would not be such an issue,given less dependence on fare revenue.Not having conductors is probably a false economy anyway.

2 February 2009 at 17:19
Mark Wadsworth said...

DBC, I think that Ed is 'one of us', actually.

2 February 2009 at 17:22
Anonymous said...

Yes, I am 'one of us' in the sense of supporting the introduction of a LVT. I like Vindico's solution as well. No reason we can't do both.

2 February 2009 at 17:49
DBC Reed said...

@ed said
My apologies.There are getting to be so many land taxers around , it is not as easy as it once was to bring the LVT rabbit out of the hat.

2 February 2009 at 20:42

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