The new decade.

The new decade. Let's get this over and done with.

HT10 (SK20BGZ), West Norwood Station

October Postscript: Initially typing the above I was bored to type more but less said the better.

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The original 2-series single decks, are they still single deck? Exactly how many single deck routes can be double decked? Is it an efficient use of resources to do so? This title is pretty long isn't it? I've taken inspiration from light novels.

London's debatably deckable single deck bus population.
Blood red city roads.

Even if you aren't well versed in the numbering system you would've noticed how majority of routes in Central London are numbered below 100, with the predecessor being a short mutation of current 366 between Jenkins Lane and Barking, but via Gascoigne Road.

Either way, I explore, mind you with calculations that are invalid from the start due to different conditions (i.e not fair tests), to come up with the answer to questions on the line of: "Is it cost-effective to convert single deck routes to double deck?" With the mindset of "if it can take them [double decks], convert them." For now though...

The art of aiding 109. The barren of killing 45. The culmination of night.

So it's pretty normal to have ideas to help improve the transport network, whether it be extra vehicles, joining links that aren't there, or perhaps slimming down routes that could be losing money. In practice everyone has their own extremes and minimalism to this practice, and some can feasibly work whilst some could need a revision at best.

I can only speak for what I'm local to, and after saying what I've just said I'd be a hypocrite to mention something outside my boundary. Example: Extend 258 over the 395 there wasn't a need for a brand new route to replace 398's Greenford section. Now that I've branded myself as a hypocrite, that's an idea I've harvested from someone else.

Unlike the me of the past, where I'd have ideas for a lot of things, I've succumbed to accepting what I have dear, and gripping my knife in cold blood whenever I receive news of a downgrade in my area. A la 468 frequency cut and 250 cut to West Croydon.

Many of my ideas can be viewed on my Flickr photostreams, my main (through this album) and my newer photostream because I'm a cheapskate. As well as that, my coined 433 idea is one of the first blog posts I've made. I won't link them, if you want to read them you search them... baka.

So now this epilogue of fooling you into only one photo in my main's album since I deleted a lot of stuff and giving you the option of my reviewing my wildest dreams I present you another one, though I'll add as much nuance as I can and give explanations where possible. Disclaimer: I'll add some ideas I've curated on my own. Oh the shock. Jokes aside:

CroySutton

The reckoning

 As if the consultation on 414 wasn't enough (cutting it from Maida Hill to Marble Arch as two every 7-8 services is overkill, their words not mine). May or may not have poked at it. The Croydon and Sutton review came just days after. I'm here after my long AFK playing and doing calculations for the 414 and now I have returned with calcs to show you, the Croydon & Sutton changes (at the bottom).

Also also, the consultation on 428 getting cut back from Bluewater to Crayford (and conversion to double deck) and 492 cut back from Bluewater to Dartford has been reversed, with 428's double decking going ahead. All's well that ends well...?

Behind: Legend of 2, and more

I have slept on this since uploading the video, as well as not writing in a while thanks to my extended lazy trait, as well as barely replying to comments but now I'm returning my interest to writing. In any case, I'll extend this from the video format into more of a talking slideshow.

That was several of hours of working on the map and several hours of research data piling from London Bus Routes by Ian Armstrong.

2019 ULEZ Diesel Workings

Since you've probably read my previous post, there's not much in the way of changes that can be covered during quarantine, unless you're local to the issue, in which case, don't jump like moths into the flames. You and I being advised to stay in unless necessary, could be droning but so is being told to not finger your nose.

I may already be losing sanity, so to keep myself and yourself as you're reading this to some form of check, I've already listed ahead of time some workings that broke, or nearly broke into the indisputable holy Ultra Low Emission Zone where only hybrids may tread in TfL service, in Central London this was applied in April of 2019. It's April 2020 now and it feels like it's been 84 years.

Hydrogen History

Since we're in lockdown and I have nothing better to do in my already-introvert life, I decided to humor those of you who are usually more extrovert, that is to say, read this to pass the time in your life of probable-eternal-boredom.