please empty your brain below
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“London’s nine busiest one-digit bus routes”... ahhh DG lol 😂
Ricci | 01.09.19 - 7:43 a.m. | #
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The H26 decrease in use may be because it is on a diverted route due to a bridge closure in Feltham taking many months to reopen.
John | 01.09.19 - 8:07 a.m. | #
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Great - bus routes again. But I enjoy whatever you write. Keep the good work up.
London's ten most crowded routes - the 330 should be number 2 (not 5)
Dave | 01.09.19 - 8:44 a.m. | #
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It wouldn't be Anorak Corner without a cut and paste error. Fixed, thanks.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 01.09.19 - 8:46 a.m. | #
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Is the 65 a South London route in the same way that Heathrow is a North London airport, West London route yes.
R5/R10, no mystery - the R5 has seven journeys and the R10 has six.
Still Anon | 01.09.19 - 9:06 a.m. | #
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Great - bus routes again. What’s not to like.
Peter | 01.09.19 - 9:17 a.m. | #
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Which explains why R10 has less overall patronage but more passengers per km (runners-up to the latter) than R5.
Patrickov | 01.09.19 - 9:34 a.m. | #
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A post about buses...at last!
OnTheBus | 01.09.19 - 10:52 a.m. | #
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Some great obscure stats there!
I had no idea the 140 is that busy. I wonder if it's busy throughout its current route, or just the last section serving Heathrow.
Mikey C | 01.09.19 - 11:19 a.m. | #
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Me too on thanks for a bus-based item!
There's also evidence of a passenger under-count, not just on the LT class but also on conventional vehicles. I still see passengers board Route 8 through doors they're not supposed to. Ticket machines and card readers seem to be inoperative more often, and a lot more non-London ENCTS pass-holders/paper ticket holders seem to be travelling.
DfT believes many bus operators are under-counting - see their annual bus travel statistics released recently.
Joel | 01.09.19 - 12:17 p.m. | #
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Interesting stats, the 140 gets higher every year. 5 years ago, it was at 17th place. And interesting to see the 65 in the top 20, very nice route that is.
In terms of least busy double deck route, 9th is the 372, then 10th is the 406. After that 11th is the 353 meaning the D8 is in 12th place (still, might aswell go back to its old routing via Langdon Park with single decks, when it was much more used).
Also, surely the 96 out to Dartford and Bluewater must be one of the busiest routes that runs outside London.
dg writes: Updated, thanks.
PVR | 01.09.19 - 12:25 p.m. | #
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Still shedding tears (low-salt ones for the usual health considerations) over the shortening of the 25 route. Oh the happy days of direct bus routes from Oxford Circus to Bank, either via Holborn or via Regent Street > Traf Sq > Fleet St.
It does seem daft that both of those path options were removed. Bank Station for the alternative single journey by tube is so shabby, labyrinthine, crowded and hot.
Pimlico Pete | 01.09.19 - 12:33 p.m. | #
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"This Top 10 is determined by dividing the number of passengers by the number of km travelled to get a 'number of passengers per km',"
A summary of numbers boarding per km surely, not crowding. Depending how far they travel will tell how crowded the bus is.
104 and 238 often fullish departing Stratford area, but most punters are gone by Green Street.
Acksh | 01.09.19 - 1:30 p.m. | #
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How anorak is 'London's most average bus route'?! Especially since it goes to the town where I was brought up!
Thank you!
Chris | 01.09.19 - 3:08 p.m. | #
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We live in Stanmore and use the 140 for its entire length when we are catching planes from LHR. It is 1 of 4 routes from Harrow Weald to Harrow-o-t-Hill so relatively quiet but it always fills up from there to S Harrow and again from Northholt to Hayes.
Michael Roberts | 01.09.19 - 3:08 p.m. | #
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Chris, indeed; one might have expected an observation from a certain Mr Pedantic of the route's southern destination on that very point
Dominic h | 01.09.19 - 5:12 p.m. | #
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The accuracy of the numbers using those routes operated by so called “new routemasters” must be in question. Free-riding is astronomical.
winsleigh | 01.09.19 - 7:24 p.m. | #
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Acksh... Similar the 58 and (especially) 330, both of which run the whole length of Green Street, are surprising entries showing up the numbers.
The 330 has a lot of short hopping on & around Green Street (both for local shopping and the tube at Upton Park) and there's also a good number of schools along its route but outside a couple of peak periods here I've never had a problem getting a seat on it. It's quite a short route and would probably settle further down the list if it ran onto somewhere further north than Forest Gate - Whipps Cross Hospital a popular desired extension locally.
Tim Roll-Pickering | Homepage | 01.09.19 - 7:46 p.m. | #
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I note that the 53 is the second most popular route in south London, so how nice of TfL to include it in one of those routes that they have truncated.
Sigh.
Chris | 01.09.19 - 7:52 p.m. | #
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As a former resident, I approve of Newham being a bus-riding hotspot.
X-Plaistow | 02.09.19 - 3:58 p.m. | #
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i wonder will TfL ever release information about whether the front door entry requirement on Route 8 has increased the number of fare paying passengers?
i don't see an "astronomical" amount of free-riding on the new routemaster buses ... but maybe it's different in other parts of london
ADS | Homepage | 02.09.19 - 5:30 p.m. | #
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Take a ride in either direction between Edmonton Green and Stamford Hill and observe the free-riders avoid the 259, 279 and 349 and stampede to the centre and rear doors on the 149. The hapless, wretched buffoon who implemented the new routemaster buses with unaffordable conductors now masquerades as prime minister.
winsleigh | 02.09.19 - 6:34 p.m. | #
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The 140 is always pretty busy anywhere between Harlington Corner and Northolt tube. Bear in mind that lots of flats have been built in the area around Hayes in anticipation of Crossrail; with plenty more to come.
straphan | 09.09.19 - 1:38 p.m. | #
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