{"id":626,"date":"2010-07-04T09:19:59","date_gmt":"2010-07-04T08:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/?p=626"},"modified":"2010-07-04T09:21:05","modified_gmt":"2010-07-04T08:21:05","slug":"breakfast-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/?p=626","title":{"rendered":"Breakfast reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My usual breakfast reading is either Private Eye or The Oldie but having finished both I was left with nothing but the back of the cereal packet (Sainsbury&#8217;s pecan and maple crisp cereal) &#8211; what a sad individual ;-)<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.loades.net\/megabusblog\/images\/uploads\/cereal.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>The exhortation to recycle 750 tonnes of cardboard is &#8220;the equivalent of 101 double-decker buses&#8221;.  My simple in the head calculation went something like &#8216;if there were 100 buses they&#8217;d each weigh 7.5 tonnes so being 101 buses each one must be under 7.5 tonnes&#8217;.  I must confess to not paying huge attention to the unladen weight which is displayed on the nearside of every bus but a few numbers did spring to mind &#8211; the double decker Megabuses we used to drive were something like 14 tonnes, I&#8217;m sure our current Trident double deckers are over 10 tonnes, the lightest we have are the single decker Darts at something like 6 tonnes.  The pictures on the cereal packet look like the old London Routemasters so I did a google on their weight and discovered that the Routemaster in its standard form (built 1958 to 1965) unladen was 7 tons 7 cwt.<\/p>\n<p>As a &#8216;youngster&#8217; to buses and bus driving I was very surprised to think that a double decker could weigh so little.  Then I thought about cars built during the same period, Ford Zephyrs, Vauxhall Crestas etc. and realised that it was exactly the same with cars and that their modern day equivalents which can weigh up to twice as much for a similar sized vehicle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My usual breakfast reading is either Private Eye or The Oldie but having finished both I was left with nothing but the back of the cereal packet (Sainsbury&#8217;s pecan and maple crisp cereal) &#8211; what a sad individual ;-) The exhortation to recycle 750 tonnes of cardboard is &#8220;the equivalent of 101 double-decker buses&#8221;. My [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":632,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions\/632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}