As you may have heard, or even seen the TV ad/YouTube video, the 607 (White City to Uxbridge), a number used for the past 30 years (as well as between 1939 and 1961 for Trolleybus 607) has ceased to exist.
It is now SL8, with no changes at all currently (besides stop renamings). Come 29 August it will have earlier and later journeys added. Why they couldn't have done both simultaneously and score a little more brownie points is beyond my armchair comprehension.
The X26 will join also in August with a frequency increase from every 30 to every 15, christened the number SL7.
Buses start and finish at West Croydon Bus Station instead of Delta Point.
East Croydon, Wallington Green and Teddington (northbound) stops to have new shelters.
New Malden The Fountain stop renamed New Malden Fountain Roundabout.
An extra last bus out of Heathrow.
1 journey starts at Wallington Green to Heathrow
(4 weekday, 2 Saturday, 1 Sunday) journeys starting from New Malden to Heathrow
The X68 will change earlier, next week 29 July. No changes at all (Disappointed as a local).
Addendum edit: It's buses (EH213/214/215-224) to receive USB charging.
Branding a little tacky with the advert frame still in situ, which can't be used as a revenue stream.
^ in addition to above, buses can't be used on other routes - another revenue stream gone (e.g Rail Replacement).
Best of all:
- no route number (when it was 607, maybe will receive it as SL8)
- it's branding omits Acton and Southall, larger towns than Hayes is.
- Don't mention it's frequency (yet Hayes and Barkingside brandings did).
- Superloop mentioned in large twice (in text and the roundel)
- "express bus service" capitalised but relatively small underneath the large Superloop text
- Why have an asterisk "at the tailpipe" as if combustion vehicles spout emissions elsewhere
The idea of orbital bus routes isn't new, if you read the Superloop wikipedia article, but in short, the last time they flirted with the idea, the X26 went from hourly to half-hourly and Boris Johnson halted plans for new routes as apparently he was told there was no need. We know the kind of man he is, who also stopped plans of a new crossing from Thamesmead to Beckton on the grounds of cost.
Now we have new routes, the X123, X269 and X119 respectively.
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| Every 12 M-Sat, every 15 Sunday/evenings for all three routes (and SL1/X34, SL10/X183, SL9/X140) |
