Notes & borrowings

[juliet]

Observed on my way to work this morning:

• An RV1 with a big notice on the back saying "FUELCELL NO EMISSIONS". It had an exhaust pipe on the top of its roof, occasionally spitting out what looked to be steam - it dissipated almost immediately. Hrm, looks like they've extended this project, & that is indeed just water vapour. Good stuff.
• A motorbike at the junction of Southwark St with Blackfriars Bridge, waiting behind the regular white line instead of the cycle-advance white line. Hurrah. (this is sadly v rare; motorbikes all seem to be under the misapprehension that they are bicycles. Given the amount of engine-revving that goes on, you'd think this would be a difficult belief to sustain.)
• The Thames looking really very pretty as I came along the Embankment. Lots of red buses crossing Waterloo Bridge with the Eye as a backdrop. I sometimes think I don't pay enough attention to the scenery when I'm cycling, but then keeping one's eyes & attention on the road is also a Good Thing.

In other news: does anyone (ideally someone coming to BMovie tonight, for ease of borrowing) have an ankh necklace I can borrow for the weekend? Required for dressing-up purposes for this pubcrawl whatsit that dogrando has been up till all hours writing.

Comments

[peshwengi.livejournal.com]

My wife was attacked by a motorcyclist when she told him he shouldn't be in the cycle-only stop zone. He pushed her off her bike :-(

I don't think they've extended the "steam powered bus" trial, unfortunately. The number 25's that used to be fuel cell buses are now "bendy buses", so I guess they just put them on a different route.

[djm4]

Oh. I thought the fuel cell buses *were* bendy buses.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

That would put me in a terrible bind, morally.

Fuel cell Routemasters, now they'd be the buses of a dream city.