Friday, August 18, 2023
For ten years the redoubtable Ian Visits has published a weekly round-up of all the rail transport news in the capital. Be it the latest from Crossrail or plans for the tube, it's all been dutifully linked and listed in an indispensable round-up available for your perusal every Friday morning. Today's collection, numbered 359, is the place to discover what's been going on over the last seven days without tediously trying to keep up with everything all by yourself. That's rail comprehensively taken care of.
But nobody's done anything similar for buses, which after all are the most widely used form of transport in the capital. A round-up of London bus news would undoubtedly be both useful and immensely popular, just as Ian's train digest has been, so today I'm launching my own. Don't say you're not excited.
It's an auspicious week for London's buses as the Superloop ramps up into hyper-mode, what with route X26 being renumbered SL7 and significant improvements to the timetables of both the SL7 and SL8. That's all happening tomorrow so I'm sure London's media will be abuzz with thoughtful news content. Ian's first week included possible names for stations on the Metropolitan line extension, plans to reopen Lea Bridge station, attempts to stop HS2 and the boost Crossrail might bring to property prices in Maidenhead. I hope my first week will be so well remembered.
So yes, over the last seven days I've been comprehensively scrutinising news sources in and around the capital for bus-related content, and below I've reproduced everything in handy summarised form. It's all here. Enjoy.
A weekly round-up of London's bus transport news
The image above is from June 2014: first day of New Buses for London on route 8
A weekly round-up of London's bus transport news...
London Buses
Kingston bus station to close for rebuilding work [Ian Visits]
New bus service replacing 84 to run between High Barnet and Potters Bar from September [Barnet Post]
Superloop
Miscellaneous
Chesham to Heathrow Airport bus route is announced [Bucks Free Press]
Campaigners criticise London bus ads for ‘greenwashing’ disposable vapes [Evening Standard]
Riding all the single-digit bus routes [diamond geezer]
Clickbait
The insane number of extra miles TfL expects London buses to travel after Superloop is complete [My London]
Full list of 102 London bus routes which will be hit in new driver and engineer strikes [MyLondon]
London bus driver pumps out 80s classic to passengers prompting plea to TfL from nostalgic Londoners [MyLondon]
Comprehensive stuff, huh?
You can now check-in every Friday at 7am - over here for buses and over there for trains - and I hope you will.
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