Grey Clouds Gather over Dresden

Capitalist neon signs do little to hide the bland ugliness of unimaginative Communist Architecture in Dresden, and though modern privatised buses enjoy the bright sunshine and the welcome revenues from bus advertising dark clouds are definitely looming to spoil a reasonably varied and stable scene. Sweeping across Europe like locusts come the big bus groups from countries such as England and France with Arriva and Connex waiting to devour both big and small road and rail concerns including most likely these in their quest to control the World thus pleasing their small and institutional shareholders. As one would expect in this Nineties view of the still blossoming face of Reunified Germany, Serta and the ubiquitous Mercedes 405 rule okay here whereas the once so familiar but unglamorous reliable Hungarian Ikarus had been consigned to the scrapheap like much of the soviet controlled past.