please empty your brain below
Additionally the online map for route 8 hasn't been updated, which also means apps aren't giving up to date information, so it's piss poor on your smartphone too.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 07.09.24 - 3:31 p.m. | #

A red cross on the E tile would be handy as well. Bet the roadworks do not start until Monday after the peak, which is also piss poor for prospective passengers in the next 48 hours.

scrumpy | 07.09.24 - 4:43 p.m. | #

It always amazes me when people wait at a bus stop with a 'temporary closed' yellow cover over it, then look furious when the bus sails past until they finally look up and twig!
I, of course, include myself in that category!!

Cornish Cockney | 07.09.24 - 4:55 p.m. | #

I expect there's be some significance to the 14:56 posting time, but I'm blowed if I can spot it!

dg writes: I'm training you for tomorrow.

Andrew S | 07.09.24 - 5:38 p.m. | #

I guess TfL expect everyone to read their website in the odd chance a service isn't going to run. A single leaflet would have done the job at either stop, and at no big expense.

All Over 2a | Homepage | 07.09.24 - 6:16 p.m. | #

DG is performing another public service. He has seen the cock ups on his travels today and knows he has many readers at TfL.
Hopefully this post will stir someone important in to doing something about the lack of info at the stops.

Chris | 07.09.24 - 8:06 p.m. | #

I don't know what effect the cyber attack on TfL is having on keeping their online information up to date.

LVF is listing Old Ford as the destination, perhaps the 20+ year old iBus is on a different system.

Still Anon | 08.09.24 - 7:41 a.m. | #

The online maps and live departures for the W13 and W14 haven't been updated yet either (though the W12 has). So I'm guessing the problem isn't that the cyber attack is preventing bus route info in the system. Thankfully there are nice simple (not!) maps available at some bus stops at least.

JP | 08.09.24 - 8:06 a.m. | #

I had this for years at the 97 bus stop at Stratford International. The bus was always on diversion but no one was told. People were waiting for ages. I wrote to TfL on several occasions until they finally decided to relocate the bus stop. They are pretty much a rubbish organisation.

BillyBoy | 08.09.24 - 8:14 a.m. | #

Sunday morning at Bus Stop M, still no poster or other information.

A number 8 approaches, running empty from Bow Garage…
…drives straight past…
…passengers perplexed and cross.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 08.09.24 - 9:20 a.m. | #

I think you’d be justified in popping out there with your own handmade stickers.
But would the passengers notice or believe them?

Jon Allen | 08.09.24 - 10:40 a.m. | #

I've had a time with Tottenham Court Road being closed for crane operations every evening where the information was absent 1. at stops 2. on TfL's website 3. on TfL Go. Internally it was mentioned on NMCC but initially as an 'emergency diversion' rather than 'planned' which really seems like someone stuck a crane on the road without telling TfL.

Everything over at TfL with regards to buses is just very inconsistent. Once upon a time you used to get a red cross on the tile. Over in Victoria at the moment because of some roadworks the 24 is no longer stopping at a bus stop and is stopping at another to compensate, they've simply removed the tile from the first and put a 'temporary' tile on the second (someone cut a piece of paper to the right size with 24 printed on it). Most of the time you get nothing at all. Some long term diversions (like the Sloane Street ones) get the full spectacle being treated as if the route was permanently rerouted (tiles moved/removed, iBus announcements adjusted to announce stops on diversion). A bit of consistency would help.

London Bus Routes has a notice on the home page noting how TfL hasn't been uploading updated schedules very consistently this week... probably cyberattack related?

matthieu1221 | 08.09.24 - 10:47 a.m. | #

So much for my post yesterday. Maybe the TfL readers aren't senior enough.

Chris | 08.09.24 - 3:02 p.m. | #

Still no publicity whatsoever for 8 truncating at Old Ford. I told around 10 people at “bus stop M” that the next one would be February. There should be flyers pasted on bus windows and in TT frames as in LT days. A “cyber attack” shouldn't prevent them from printing and displaying paper posters.

Kim | 08.09.24 - 3:31 p.m. | #

The latest from the number 8 status page on the TfL website tells you that the bus will start and end at Roman Road Market but when you look at any of open eastbound bus stops along the route it says that the destination is Old Ford. But Old Ford doesn’t exist according to the map!

Status alert for route 8
BOW ROUNDABOUT: From 07:00 Monday 09 September to 05:00 Wednesday 15 January, route 8 is starting and ending journeys at the stops 'Roman Road Market' due to Silvertown Tunnel works. Buses are not serving the stops Bow Church and Bow Bus Garage.

Auntie Susan | 09.09.24 - 3:26 p.m. | #











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