Streets comes London's beloved Routemaster bus

People see the new style of London bus after its launch in Trafalgar Square in London 16 December 2011. buying bus is based on the popular old Routemaster design and enter service early next year.
By Michael Holden
LONDON | Friday, 16 December 2011 10: 10 EST are
LONDON (Reuters) - London welcomed a new open secured double-decker bus on Friday, six years after the popular but aging fleet "Routemaster" vehicles were removed from the streets of the British capital.
The unmistakable snub-nosed red route master, popular with tourists and locals alike and as synonym for London and Buckingham Palace, Big Ben were the year 2005 were almost entirely withdrawn, because it as expensive relics of the past.
The elegant modern bus, also a conductor features and the distinctive open rear boarding platform to jump on people, and that was for the first time on Friday, revealed, and glide through traffic on his first trip through London.
Bright blue sky London Mayor Boris Johnson, who had promised a modern Routemaster in his manifesto 2008, said that he believed that the new design would be around the world than its predecessor as a resonant.
So is the international attraction of the bus, the journalists from around the world gathered in a cool Trafalgar Square to see Johnson from the shiny "Boris Bus" show how it's called.
"I think is the magical thing about this bus, curved display which has made it," he told reporters before the start in the flowery prose, for which he is known.
"It reminds all of things, the icon of London-design an old taxi, or the design a bowler hat, or the noble arched forehead a battle are elephants."
"This is what says London at the expense of the people." "Only along the streets only now it became obvious, how many people want it and what an eye-catcher, what it is."
The original route master were introduced in 1956 but stopped in 1968 production in the capital in the year. Some 2,760 rolled through London at their head, and in countless films such as the 1963 Cliff Richard film "Summer Holiday."
The first eight new prototypes, designed and built in the UK, work station and Hackney in East London from February of next year on the route number 38 between Victoria.
Are hundreds more to be released when the process successfully.
"FLOWERS PROJECT"
However, not everyone is happy to see the new look, the route master conservative Johnson's "glossy vanity project." with Labour Party say opponents London would pay
You argued, that it was wrong, design and build the first buses if prices and money was Britain's economic difficulties 11 million pound spend.
The cost of a conductor only 72,000 pounds per bus each year would add, they said.
Johnson was unbowed. "... A very simple question answer bus people who reject this." They want a bus is the cleaner and greener..., which is based in the UK and provides jobs British? ", he said."
"Or they want to return to a german manufactured bus which does not pertain to the streets of the city."
As a prominent euroskeptic, Johnson would withstand any blow to the European Union as the new bus the only one in Europe have the hop on / hop platform, according to the, London officials will be transport.
"This is not anti-EU bus," Johnson said with a smile. "It is important that we the open platform in defiance of much skepticism could restore." "Of course there were many eyebrows grew up in Brussels but we were able to convince them."