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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Ross Lydall

Ding ding! TfL brings back Routemaster bell to cut number of passengers injured falling on London buses

London’s classic Routemaster bus was killed off by Ken Livingstone -

The “ding ding” bell once used on London’s classic Routemaster bus is to be reintroduced in a trial aiming to reduce the number of passengers being injured in falls on buses.

Transport for London is putting forward a series of initiatives in response to concerns about the number of people being killed or seriously injured either by, or onboard, the capital’s 8,800 red buses.

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