Diamond Bus North West

[gilesbus1]

RE: Diamond Bus North West
I think London's Red Bus is a Worldwide tourist attraction, that was one of the reasons behind the New Routemaster or Boris Bus. Unfortunately the unrelieved red has gone too far, with not even any sort of stripe, RT's and Routemasters had nice Gold bands between decks, and other buses could have bands between, but plain red just doesn't look that good unfortunately. The same would apply if the buses in Manchester were just pained unrelieved overall Orange, there is no need for plain liveries, the other problem with the TfL livery is that buses can look drab especially when they've been on the road for 24 hours solid which I know some are. However I release that most Londoners want them Red along with Tourists, but I doubt they would care very much if the were plain red or red with some sort of relief and the 80% Livery rule was fine, but some politician decided to make it worse.

I will agree with you the new Diamond livery looks very good but really the old Blue was one of the better plain liveries, simply because of its darker shade of Blue.