The New Routemaster, out of favour since Sadiq Khan succeeded Boris Johnson as Mayor of London in 2016, could be back in the public eye as Johnson - now foreign secretary -uses it to advance his case for a 22mile crossroad bridge between England and France.He regards the New Routemaster as one of the most lasting achievements of his eight years at City Hall, with 1,000 on the streets of the UK capital providing a daily backdrop to outside television broadcasts and retaining the potential for busy Londoners to hop on and off between stops.Disappointed that his successor, who regards it as a vanity project, has decreed that no more will be built and that the final batch was consigned to the relative suburban obscurity of route 267 (Hammersmith-Fulwell), he wants the design to become a prominent symbol of his ambitious Channel bridge for a post-Brexit age.
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机译:自从萨迪克·汗(Sadiq Khan)于2016年接替鲍里斯·约翰逊(Boris Johnson)担任伦敦市长以来,新路线主管一直备受青睐,因为约翰逊-现在是外交大臣-使用它来推进他在英格兰和法国之间建立的22英里十字路桥的案子,可能会重新受到公众的关注。 r n他将“新路线大师”视为他在市政厅八年来最持久的成就之一,在英国首都的街道上有1000人提供每日的外部电视广播背景,并保留了忙碌的伦敦人跳来跳去的潜力 r n失望的是,他的继任者将其视为一项虚荣的项目,已下令不再建造更多建筑物,并将最后一批委托给267号公路(哈默史密斯-富勒)的相对郊区遮盖,他希望该设计成为后脱欧时代雄心勃勃的英吉利海峡大桥的突出标志。
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