I was reading one of the books of Tony Judt, a prolific English Jewish writer, named The Memory Chalet.

In chapter six the writer narrates his memoirs regarding the “Green Line Bus” that used to take him all over London. He is eloquent about the sterling service provided by the 718 bus “which was distinctive in a number of ways”.

He ends this chapter about the London buses with a negative remark: “Today’s Green Line buses are but a shadow of their predecessors. They are owned and run by Arriva, the worst of the private companies now responsible for providing train and bus services to British commuters at exorbitant prices...

“With rare exceptions the buses avoid central London, being routed instead between the new reference points of British topography: Heathrow Airport, Legoland etc... There are no cross-London routes; those buses that enter the city terminate halfway across before returning whence they came...”

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