Here comes the eco-friendly Routemaster

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The design for a new generation double-decker is emission-free and has a hydrogen engine - as well as an open platform and conductors.

The scheme has already won the backing of Boris Johnson, the Tory candidate in next year's mayoral elections.

The eco-bus is the brainchild of Autocar magazine, which asked bus designer Capoco to create a 21st-century Routemaster. Its blueprint incorporates electric motors powered by battery packs, which are charged by a hydrogen-fuelled generator.

The bus would carry 48 people on the upper deck and 28 on the lower. Conductors would be reinstated and there would be a ramp at the front of the bus for pushchair and wheelchair access.

The vehicle would be built from lightweight materials and its designers claim it would be cleaner and quieter than London's ultra-long bendy buses that partly replaced the Routemaster.

But Transport for London rejected the plan and said it failed to "answer the fundamental problems around safety, accessibility and capacity that led us to phase out the original Routemaster".