Air con to be installed in all London buses by next summer in victory for striking drivers
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Indirectly a victory for the passengers too. Hard to understand how they thought it was acceptable to go without until now - buses this summer were utterly miserable in the heat.
This is AC for the driver’s cab
No idea how AC isn't standard in public transit. You have employees in these boxes for 8 hours.
I guess the people making the decisions do not use public transit. Which should disqualify them.
Vote for me at next election, I promise to force bus designers to use their own busses for 5 years. And architects of high rises to live in god forsaken shitholes they design for 5 years before they get paid
Uh because why would profit-driven company pay "unnecessary expenses" unless they have to?
The only way to get things from these entities is through striking.
Glass boxes at that. They're in a freaking greenhouse
Even Singapore didn't have a fully air-conditioned bus fleet until 2013. I remember being charged extra for riding on an air-conditioned bus there.
How the hell was a strike necessary? What the fuck is London doing?
Sweating, or at least they were.
Cool
To be fair in this situation, drivers had full plastic dividers installed during Covid, which were kept afterwards; presumably because it makes them feel safer. This means that there is now a properly sealed “cab” which wasn’t the case before, so the vents in there are now much more important to keep the area cool, and probably aren’t really adequate if you seal them into a box.
In fact, thinking about it it has to be a separate system to the rest of the bus if it was Covid safe. Unless they were just expected to keep the window open? Not sure.
What they have worse buses than India of all places
India where its always been hot?
You'd be suprised to know India has diverse climate zones and elevation levels