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I for one am looking forward to the 135 starting over the weekend!
As a regular commuter on the Jubilee Line from home at Willesden Green all the way to work at Canary Wharf, it's nice to have some alternative transport between work and Liverpool Street for those days the tube is broken, or I feel like stopping off at "Banglatown" for a dodgy curry or spot of market shopping on the way home 
Saltwater | Homepage | 23.05.08 - 5:14 p.m. | #
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The numerical choice doesn't make amazing sense and may be confusing - the 15 and 115 already run along the Commercial Road and I bet it confuses a few people with poor eyesight or numerical dyslexia.
Still as a Limehouse resident who is often in the Liverpool Street area it works pretty well for me, so I'm not complaining too much.
Chris Applegate | Homepage | 23.05.08 - 5:17 p.m. | #
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On the subject of London bus route numbers, I would like to know why the 360 is diverted from its usual route during Chelsea Flower Show week.
I already know the answer actually - it's so that they can fleece people £3 each way (or was it £3.50, I can't remember, I don't use it as I have found a cheaper way) for getting from Victoria to the Bullring Gate of the Chelsea Hospital on the Embankment.
Given that most of the people who *go* to Chelsea pay/help generate the huge amounts of tax that support the TfL network, I find it most discriminatory. And annoying.
Blue Witch | Homepage | 23.05.08 - 8:50 p.m. | #
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Don't give them any ideas! There's already two 242s - the real one and the modern upstart which is batter remembered as the other end of the 22.
Matt | 23.05.08 - 9:58 p.m. | #
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The 135 number has been used previously on routes such as Clapham Common - Epping Forest, a supplementary of the 35 in the 1920s; New Barnet - Victoria in the 1930s, a supplementary of the 134; Enfield - Brimsdown from the 1940s, as well as Archway - Marble Arch in the 1980s.
The choice of number isn't that odd.. There was a route 56 in the 1980s that had the same sort of routing, but only to Aldgate and of course the 5, originally ran via Old Street and there was also a short lived "D" route from London Bridge.
I would have prefered the 205 (as a central London route) take the number 20, the new 135 take the number 5 and the existing 5 take the number 135. I don't like such low numbered routes, such as the 5 and 20 being so far out in the suburbs..
IsarSteve | Homepage | 23.05.08 - 10:23 p.m. | #
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ahem...
"TfL is inviting passengers and local residents to give their comments on proposals for a new bus route, 228, and plans to extend route 316."
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/...entre/
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dan | 23.05.08 - 11:13 p.m. | #
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If the new route 135 runs from Liverpool Street to Limehouse, Shadwell and Fenchurch Street, that would provide a handy link to the DLR without having to go through the scary interchange at Bank. This is particularly useful for avoiding the 'improvement works' that have been going on at Bank recently, and it should hopefully reduce congestion there in the long term.
Pretty good idea, I'd say.
Andrewh | 23.05.08 - 11:27 p.m. | #
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Thank you for the bus ride down memory lane. A lifetime ago, I lived in Sunbury and worked or shopped in either Staines or Kingston. Didn't use the 218 much as that went south of the river, but I regularly used the 216 and the 237 (mentioned there that had also used those old classic red RF buses.)
Pamela | Homepage | 24.05.08 - 1:54 p.m. | #
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if i can't work this topic in to the conversation when i clock in for work at four thirty on tuesday morning, i'll eat my anorak !
tristan forward | Homepage | 24.05.08 - 10:58 p.m. | #
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