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TfL bus route 462 was re-routed a few years ago and now passes the northern end of Hainault Road, Redbridge (see tfl.gov.uk/bus/route/462 The bus now runs along Forest Road between Elmbridge Road and Fullwell Cross, but this change post-dates the skeleton bus route map.

dg writes: removed, thanks.

Alan S | 11.10.21 - 8:30 a.m. | #

We really are spoilt here in the Capital.

Cornish Cockney | 11.10.21 - 8:42 a.m. | #

I think the Trent Park entry can be taken off too, if you count the shuttle bus from near Oakwood Tube station to the new housing near the House

Stephen | 11.10.21 - 9:08 a.m. | #

Bus route or bus stop?

dg writes: see last paragraph.

When the bus stop for the 265 was removed from near me on the A3 some years ago , it was a lot further than 400 metres to the nearest stop. Its now been rerouted and reinstated on the slip road. But for several months a sizeable community of people were a long way from a bus stop.

Cornish Monkey | 11.10.21 - 10:39 a.m. | #

After reading this BBC Panorama article I tried to find out which are the two residential addresses in London that are not "at least 2km (1.2 miles) from a bus stop with a service calling on average four times a day". I did not find the answer.

ST | 11.10.21 - 12:28 p.m. | #

ST - my suspicion (based on some knowledge of the area and my interpretation of DG's work here) is that they are both on Bramble Lane in Upminster.

(The 373, and a real oddity, the Thames Weald "Tunnel Express" from Romford to Sevenoaks and occasionally beyond, are among the buses that used to stop a bit nearer, but no more)

Dominic H | 11.10.21 - 12:52 p.m. | #

There's an online tool showing the Public Transport Access Level (PTAL) for all of London, which might serve as an alternate starting point for answering today's question.

Some level 0 areas are less than half a mile from a station or bus stop, an ambitiously high cut-off at the bottom of the scale.

dg writes: see the aforementioned Hacton Void.

Joachim | 11.10.21 - 3:23 p.m. | #

It's serendipitous you should mention Springwell Lane by Stockers Lake in today's post as, quite unrelatedly, I also discovered this morning that the opening scenes of the quite dreadful Dr Who serial "Delta and the Bannermen" was filmed in the quarry at the end of it.

I recognize this comment has very little to do with buses, for which I can only apologize.

Andrew Carpenter | 11.10.21 - 4:40 p.m. | #

Some extensive research here, with fascinating conclusions. It will be interesting to see how well this useful accessibility metric keeps up in the face of various upcoming challenges, mainly financial ones.

A couple of points which I would have phrased differently:

"It's fine, everyone here drives" ->
"It may be fine here, all households seem to have a car" [usual proviso about children and other non-drivers].

"and not on, or very close to.." ->
"neither on nor very close to.." [mixing "and" with "or" causes ambiguity]

Malcolm of Kent | 11.10.21 - 6:37 p.m. | #

(sigh)

diamond geezer | Homepage | 11.10.21 - 6:41 p.m. | #

I'm currently staying with family in a small town in County Antrim, 1 bus an hour and they stop running after 6pm and no buses on a Sunday

Rachel | 11.10.21 - 8:10 p.m. | #

The problem with TfL buses is they have no legal requirement to run buses outside the London area to boundary hugging estates, places of work etc. This means that for lots of people living within London they have no actual viable alternative to get to their places of work unless prepared to pay a lot more than TfL charges. This is literally the definition of "Transport Poverty"

Andrew Jarman | 11.10.21 - 8:47 p.m. | #

In spite of the cuts, we'll still have a more comprehensive bus network than most other areas of the UK, although 'cross border' links have got worse, they'll be an alternate reality where Labour didn't help cause the current situation by splitting Central Buses from Country Buses back in 1970.

Still Anon | 11.10.21 - 11:12 p.m. | #

Good to know so many are well-served, but very concerning is the cutting and/or truncation of central London bus routes and frequencies perpetrated by TfL since 2018. The massive reduction in buses on Oxford Street was aimed at cutting pollution (or driving passengers onto the splendid, newly-opened Elizabeth Line that speeds through the area; oh, hang on a moment....), but it’s made much of the West End far harder to reach from, say, Victoria or Clerkenwell, and doesn’t help people with mobility problems who find tube travel difficult. The cuts may have been driven by one dodgy passenger survey, Johnson’s crap deal, as Mayor, with the government, and TfL’s failure to control Uber, but they don’t bode well for the future.

Labourer | 12.10.21 - 7:42 p.m. | #

OK, DG, I get the message.

Labourer | 13.10.21 - 4:00 p.m. | #

I knew I'd get here eventually! Short-cutted though by a very helpful reply from DG.

Now to overlay the skeleton map onto the rail dead spot map...

Uncle Audrey | 20.05.22 - 2:16 p.m. | #











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