Saturday, September 07, 2024
Roadworks have yet to start at the Bow Roundabout but buses on route 8 have already been curtailed so they no longer start at Bus Stop M. Unfortunately nobody's told the passengers yet. They're still standing around waiting for buses that aren't coming, some for ages until the penny finally drops. They're checking their phones, they're double checking the timetable and they're looking at the Countdown display and thinking "hang on, it says no 8s are due for the next 20 minutes", before eventually wandering off. Normal procedure is that someone official adds a yellow poster at the bus stop advising passengers of the change, in this case "no buses until February, please catch an alternative bus from the other side of the church". But in this case nobody official has bothered and the end result is dozens of confused and inconvenienced passengers, maybe hundreds by the end of the day, and this is piss poor.
Things are equally poor at Bus Stop OL, which is normally the penultimate stop on route 8 but has suddenly become the final stop instead. Eastbound passengers are all being dumped here, as the blind on the front of the bus suggests, but without any indication of how to make the jump to Bow Church. In fact it's easy, you just board a 276 or 488 and it'll take you there, but again there's no yellow poster advising of this. What tends to happen is that one astute soul announces this to their fellow waiting passengers, so the old lady with the walking stick doesn't look too distraught, but it is pretty unforgiveable to chop a bus for five months and not tell anyone you've done that.
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