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Walking
down the city streets, you look up and see a red telephone box. Behind it, on
the road, a big red double-decker bus {#blank#}1{#/blank#} by, carrying citizens and
tourists. This is London. And the red bus has been a {#blank#}2{#/blank#} of the city.
Modern transportation has changed the way we
live. One important kind of transport has been the bus. In London, buses play a
{#blank#}3{#/blank#} role than other kinds of transport. They are {#blank#}4{#/blank#} to go around
the city. Red tourist buses have open roofs, which let people {#blank#}5{#/blank#} many
photos as they drive past Big Ben, the Thames, the London Eye, {#blank#}6{#/blank#} so
on.
But how did the bus become special to London culture? Horse-drawn buses have been used in London {#blank#}7{#/blank#} 1829. By the early 20th century, motor-buses were driving around London. Bus companies used different {#blank#}8{#/blank#} at that time. The biggest company chose red. In 1933, when London transport was grouped into a single company, they chose {#blank#}9{#/blank#} most widely used color at that time—red.
And
so the color red stayed in London. But it was during the mid-1950s that the red
double-decker was born. All of them were built {#blank#}10{#/blank#} 1954 and 1968. That
is why they still look traditional.
