Tuesday, 28 June 2022

Crystal Palace through routes double run

Exactly as the long title suggests, having routes 249 432 and 450 double run through the bus station, could it work?
It worked for the 97/357 in Walthamstow, it works for Stratford and multiple routes, can Crystal Palace have some itself?

Crystal Palace map
Bus Station is stop D
Last stop for terminating routes is stop A (122/202/363) and stop C (others not 3/227)


Tuesday, 14 June 2022

Central London Bus Review 2022


Since it's such a long winded consultation, as well as the site being less convenient to read and access maps, there's been a lot to take in. As well as the official notice being ominous. The following day, Abellio, Arriva and Go-Ahead provided employee notices whereby stating they'd lose 135 drivers (Arriva) and 350 drivers (GAL) respectively, both having discussions with Unite to maintain jobs. Cut short, the operators were best displeased with the consultation, so it seemed anyway with really similar wording to TfL's own one.

Fret not, enthusiasts on The Bus Forum have simplified it. There's a document Inner London with the changes simplified, thanks to user YX10FFN.
Read those and come back to hear my thoughts.
If you need a map to properly understand, Mike Harris (the legend behind many historical maps who also makes recent maps) created a Central London map of what the consultation entails.

Perhaps enter a petition, (here's one for Southwark), even if it might not save it in reality.

Time is ticking in thoroughly as 12 July is the limit, leaving a short time window for any build up of controversy or complaints.

The reason for the post being more than a week after it became live was because I delved into calculations using my spreadsheet.
PVR changes, route length changes, stand changes, corridor buses per hour changes. Nothing more than that though. 

In short, the corridor changes in Central and the City.

Without further ado, I'll go from South to East to West to North.