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Thursday, 17 August 2017

Times Online

• Bring back the bendy bus, transport chiefs urged [Subscription]The “bendy buses” so hated by Boris Johnson would cut journey times and provide better disabled access if they returned to London’s streets, an influential committee has suggested.

City AM

• Five technologies Transport for London is testing to change bus travel by improving safetyTransport for London is testing out new technologies on the capital's public transport that could bring sound warnings to buses, like those found on reversing trucks, to improve safety.

Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport

• New technology trials to transform bus safety in London (Image Source: Alexander Dennis) Transport for London has announced plans to test new safety technology on London buses. Automatic braking and audible warning systems will be trialled alongside measures including new mirrors to improve the driver’s vision.  Earlier this year the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, set out a ‘Vision Zero’ approach to road danger in his draft transport strategy. It aims for no one to be killed in or by a London bus by 2030, and for deaths and serious injuries from road collisions to be eliminated from London’s streets by 2041. All of th...