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| A face of things to come... |
Includes four new consultations, touted as the solution to the increased regulation Ultra Low Emission Zone brings for your average Joe and Jenny car and van user who rely on them to get around London, since their areas have poor or no transport, in and around or across London borders.
I'll write my overall thoughts now. It is disappointing.
With Congestion Charge in the early 2000s, you had many new bus routes (think 148 205 360 RV1) as well as splits of day routes (2 into 2/432, 36 into 36/436, etcetera) to increase capacity in the network.
In this round of four consultations, bearing in mind the early 2000-2005 era saw plethora of improvements, there's 2 semi-long extensions and 2 short extensions, with 2 routes withdrawn. Yes, routes are withdrawn.
Whilst not part of the Congestion Charge changes, cross-border London travel saw improvements, mainly as routes 405 and 498 saw the potential of withdrawal if TfL didn't step in to protect the London sections of those routes, which meant serving the counties. Same couldn't be said for the many lost cross-London routes such as 310 in Enfield and 402 in Bromley, with many more lost. The 505 lost from Chingford due to Low Emission Zone.
So without further ado, my first impressions on each consultation.
