Hammersmith bus station, stop K
• The N782 tile has been removed and a proper N72 tile is in its place
• The bus stop now has timetables for the new daytime routes
• There are no new route maps (here or anywhere else)
Hammersmith Bridge Road, stop S
• The 72 stops here but there is no tile to say so, only a 533 tile
Hammersmith Bridge
• Now has a whopping big banner at one end promising that Hammersmith Bridge will be restored to full working order
Castelnau, stop K
• Now has timetables for the new routes
• Has no stewards to advise passengers who've walked across the bridge which bus to catch
• Bus stop flag says "towards Barnes Pond or Putney" (this is mostly true)
Castelnau, stop J(just across the road)
• Has no timetables for the new routes
• Has two stewards to advise passengers who've just alighted from buses where to go next
• Bus stop flag says "towards Barnes Pond or Putney" (this is entirely false)
• Lady complaining to stewards that since they cut the 72 she has to take two buses to get to hospital
Mortlake - Putney Bridge, route 209
• Formerly ran between Mortlake and Hammersmith (you may remember)
• Map of route on TfL website is out-of-date
• Service runs every 6 minutes, which is proving unnecessarily frequent
• Maximum number of passengers seen aboard any 209 bus - two
On my 209 journey...
• First passenger boarded in Mortlake - stayed on for two stops
• Second passenger boarded in Mortlake - stayed on for two stops
• Third passenger boarded in Barnes - stayed on for one stop
• No further passengers from Mortlake or Barnes
• Supposed length of bus journey - 18 minutes
• Actual length of bus journey - only 12 minutes...
• ...but walk from final bus stop to Putney Bridge station - 5 minutes
I've been back to Hammersmith to see how the bridge closure bus changes are getting on.
