If you don't have a 4x4 Chelsea Tractor lobby, you can just use bendy buses. Boarding and alighting is much faster, and there's more space for pushchairs etc.
I fail to see the specific connection between the SUV drivers and bendy buses, as these articulated buses were operational on only 12 routes out of 700+ due to their restrictions. If the implication is that these buses were taken out of circulation due to a vocal lobby of car owners of certain luxury marques, living in salubrious boroughs, then it is a preposterous suggestion. The real reason is that this bus was a death machine ─ snaking along the streets ─ killing cyclists, bikers, pedestrians and motorists alike. Amongst a catalogue of flaws, ranging from being prone to catching fire to acquiring the label of 'free bus' by fare dodgers; it's only saving grace in the near-decade long operation was being wheelchair-friendly.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/bendy-buses-the-fatal-facts-...
...and the article, along with any possibility of actual journalism from the Standard, ended here.
It's a reasonable argument. It's it true?
For the uninitiated, articulated/bendy buses were in operation from 2002-2011, the article linked was written in 2007 in the Evening Standard (ES), when it was still under paid circulation.