With the judging for the new Routemaster design competition due mid-month, we thought we’d bring you one more of the 225 models put forward. We’ve already featured proposals from e21, Foster and Partners, and H4: now it is the turn of Paresh Chandegra, a designer from Ilford. Although his day job is at nbbj the implication is that he has entered the fray as an independent. His bus is perhaps the most retro of the......

The Routemaster bus design competition that TfL launched earlier in the year has long closed, and the winner is set to be announced next month, but the slow drip-feed of some of the more luscious entries continues. Having gawped at Foster + Partner's curvaceous model and grinned at H4's happy-looking effort, another competition entry from our German friends at design firm e21 has been unveiled. The bus, which can be viewed here, features a rakishly......

We reported on the Foster routemaster design about ten days ago: now here’s a jolly offering from H4: This is definitely going to be the Marmite of the bus world – you will either love it or hate it. OK – it does look like a toy. But what a joyous sight to behold. Who could maintain the commuter’s stern countenance in the face of such wheel-borne frivolity? And it’s got curvy seats. And telly.......

You're probably as tired of reading about it as we are of writing about it, but there's more bus strike action coming our way. Plan now to find alternate transport on Friday 10 and Wednesday 22 October, especially as more routes will be affected than previously. Members of the union Unite are still trying to achieve uniform pay rates and hours for their workers, which we support even if we grumble about how it's achieved.......

That's it folks, your opportunity to design a new bus for London is over. The competition closed awhile back, but if you didn't get round to it, never mind, for like the poor kid ever-bested by his Competitive Dad in The Fast Show, a professional's gone and jumped in to show us how it's done. Architecture firm Foster + Partners slipped in their sleek and futuristic, yet recognisable and pleasantly curvaceous double-decker offering at......

One of Boris Johnson's manifesto pledges was to remove bendy buses from the streets of London and replace them with a next-generation Routemaster - a populist promise that played well in London's hinterlands, where the moneyed folk rarely ride public transportation. While the second half of that pledge is hostage to the whims and ideas of folk who entered the design competition, the first half looks to be on track: a consultation is currently......

Time is running out for TfL's competition to design a new Routemaster - it closes in just over a week. But a recently republished article from the Blueprint archive reveals that this is not the first time Londoners have been solicited for their ideas on how to build a better bus. For its 25th anniversary issue, on sale now, architecture and design journal Blueprint has chosen a selection of the best journalism over its......

Forget London on the Cheap for a minute. If you're a true London geek with a proper taste for public transport then you need to check the piggy bank and make sure your eBay account is active. London Transport Museum if having a big ole auction with some awesome lots, if you can bid big enough. A tour of the disused Aldwych tube station - of much film fame but no longer open to......

Our beloved Routemaster's retirement has taken on a melancholy air. Seeing those "heritage" routes trundle along the Strand with nary a passenger on them, a bored conductor with his ticket machine noosed forlornly around his neck, is a sad sight to behold, and a humiliating end for these once-proud beasts. The Japanese, however, aren't nearly so disrespectful to their elders. Since April a Routemaster with the number 190 displayed on its destination board has......

Crayolas, set squares and glue-on sparkles to the ready: a competition has just been launched to design the next generation of Routemaster buses. Voters will of course recall that the much-loved bus was a key plank of Boris Johnson's manifesto, as he tempted bendy-bus loathers by claiming the articulated eyesores would be banished from our streets in favour of a new fleet of Routemasters. Yet during his first two months in office the topic......

Some Routemasters just don't know when to retire. While Boris considers his pledge to resurrect a modernised Routemaster, the original omnibus gets an artistic outing at the London Transport Museum. The double-decker is celebrated in a photographic exhibition by Ralf Obergfell, a German-born artist with a deep affection for the curtailed London icon. Last Stop opened this weekend and runs till 27 July. Meanwhile, Travis Elborough, author of The Bus We Loved, will give a......

Has the final wheel come off Boris Johnson’s 'New Routemaster' policy? The good thing about it was that it came with a promise to restore conductors to the routes currently served by the bendy buses Johnson wants to replace: a bus with a conductor is a friendlier bus, a friendlier bus is a safer bus and so on. Problem is, Johnson has no grip on the economics of the plan, even weeks after he first......

Space.com are showing a picture of a London red bus ensconced within European space freighter the Jules Verne. Less romantically known as the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), the Jules Verne is due to dock with the International Space Station tomorrow. Alas, the bus is intended as an indicator of capacity for, as far as we know, the craft is laden with supplies and experiments, and not a decommissioned Routemaster. That said, Nasa are looking......

The bendy bus comes in for regular bashings, and the articulated eyesore is one of the hot topics in the Mayoral election, with Boris Johnson threatening to scrap it altogether in favour of a remixed Routemaster. Now a new report comes along that suggests the bendy's popularity with fare-dodgers is bigger than ever. According to a Liberal Democrat study, fare evasion has almost doubled from 2.2% in 2003 to 3.9% last year. This coincides......

Boris Johnson might just have won himself the election with a pledge to abolish the bendy bus and bring back the Routemaster. Emotions were high today as the Bethnal Green tube station disaster was commemorated, 65 years on. Londonist is feeling left out: we want to climb up something and protest: today saw two up a crane grumbling about the EU Treaty. On the Olympic front, today saw the announcement that the IOC is......

A quick poll amongst the people milling beneath the Londonist penthouse reveals that, while mayoral candidate Boris Johnson may have the jet-pack of publicity strapped to his back, folk are less sure about his policies. The Henley MP is trying to rectify that. In addition to his Back Boris website, and promise to resurrect the Routemaster, Boris is now bringing out the big guns, with a vow to scrap the western congestion charge zone.......

Boris Johnson is backing a plan to bring Routemasters back into action, with electric motors and no emissions, and the reintroduction of drivers and conductors on each bus. With characteristic swiftness, Ken Livingstone has taken opposition to the plan and Londoners are once again torn between the two views on the possible return of the famous big red bus. For a brief set by Autocar magazine, design company Capaco came up with the electric......