Design a bus for Boris
Posted in Design, Branwell Johnson, Latest reporters' blogs July 4th, 2008 by Branwell Johnson
Mayor of London Boris Johnson is asking people to design a new bus based on the Routemaster for the capital. Is he a few seats short of a top deck?
It’s a good publicity stunt, granted, to have the big launch which occurred today and Mayor Boris is obviously assured of coverage in the London press.
But he’s trying to obtain ideas and designs for free. There is a grand cash prize for the winner but is this really the way to generate proper, workable, transport ideas? Smacks of the usual sound and fury signifying nothing to me. The competition is asking for blueprints from professional designers, surely they want to be paid professionally and not roped in to some PR initiative?
The mayor is looking for a “new generation 21st century Routemaster bus” but I’m glad one feature of the old Routemaster will remain, it must be red. That must be galling to True Blue Boris.
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