please empty your brain below
Roger’s also been out riding the SL1, so if you fancy an even longer report with even more photos…

diamond geezer | Homepage | 10.12.23 - 7:32 a.m. | #

The 'Ravenside Trading Estate' stop on the north circular was useful for IKEA - so in the parallel universe where it hadn't been turned into a massive nightclub, SL1 would have been handy for shaving a few minutes from my journey there.

The equivalent stop on the westbound carriageway, 'Eley Trading Estate' must be in the running for grimmest bus stop in London. It's on an island amongst 10 lanes of fast moving traffic, and just around a left hand bend, so you need to have your wits about you if you want to stand a chance of flagging down your bus. I don't know if any publicity people were dispatched there yesterday but I feel sorry for them if they were.

dg writes: sensibly unstaffed.

martin | 10.12.23 - 8:11 a.m. | #

My eagle eye spotted what may looks like an error on the leaflet - it lists "Forest HILL/Bell Corner" as a stop. In all my years living and working in Walthamstow this has always been Forest ROAD/Bell Corner at the intersection of Hoe Street, Forest Road and Chingford Road. There is a slight downward slope on Forest Road but well short of being a hill.

Rob Gullen | 10.12.23 - 8:19 a.m. | #

221 goes to Bounds Green not Arnos Grove, should read 221 to New Southgate, 232 to Arnos Grove/Palmers Green.

Still Anon | 10.12.23 - 9:00 a.m. | #

The SL1 timetable is on the excellent londonbusroutes.net which confirms a 32 minutes journey time (or a bit less) is only early mornings and late evenings.
Full SL1 pdf timetable here.

dg writes: wasn’t there last night - delighted it is now.

John | Homepage | 10.12.23 - 10:14 a.m. | #

The numbering of the Superloop routes seems more to look neat on a map than for any practical use. They managed to avoid choosing any that even partly referenced the previous numbers to help passengers remember them (eg the 607 became SL8 not SL7, the X26 now being the SL7 rather than the more obvious SL6).

Andrew S | 10.12.23 - 10:26 a.m. | #

Good report. I love an express route and a quick way to link stations has already proved very handy for me.
I wasn't overly keen on the name and numbering chosen, but I suppose it will become better with time and experience.

Cornish Cockney | 10.12.23 - 11:39 a.m. | #

There was a time when installing USB charging points felt like the future. I wonder how many (including the hotel I stayed at a few weeks ago) regret their foresight given USB-C will now be the standard instead. I appreciate you can use adapters, but it will definitely start to mark things out as having been created during a fairly narrow range of years.

Anders | 10.12.23 - 11:46 a.m. | #

Meanwhile, this morning on the opposite side of London an SL7 was regularising at the Cheam bus stop.

I was debating with my daughter the merits and demerits of only putting major interchange stop names on the otherwise full service diagram (Cheam is omitted although the station is close by), when she observantly noticed that the Kingston interchange is in the wrong place. It should be one stop earlier and not the Bentall Centre stop as implied. Well done (again) TfL?!

Ken | 10.12.23 - 12:26 p.m. | #

There was a bit of a kerfuffle on the open data prior to this week with SL10 data being uploaded to SL1 leading to bustimes having the wrong route info -- perhaps internally they didn't quite have the right data neither. Wonder if that's what may have led to a lack of timetables on day 1. Good to at least see the tiles in place.

Only a few km of the promised 25km of bus lanes by 2025 have been implemented so far, so hopefully a few of the remaining end up being on Superloop corridors.

matthieu1221 | 10.12.23 - 12:33 p.m. | #

"Superloop is a network ..." says the poster.
No it isn't!
Superloop is (or will be) a ring with a couple of spokes. "Network" implies intersection, a mesh of some sort, such as in Network SouthEast, or the Underground network, or DLR network.
As the lexicographer Samuel Johnson put it: "Any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections."

Retired Pedant | 10.12.23 - 10:03 p.m. | #

It's a network.

Retired Mathematician | 10.12.23 - 11:20 p.m. | #

If we're calling in the lexicographers...
mitigate - make (something bad) less severe, serious, or painful
militate against something - to prevent something; to make it difficult for something to happen or exist.

But, as we saw on Friday, even collectively, we can't manage once what you do day after day.

Thanks.

Michael | 11.12.23 - 6:14 a.m. | #

For the gold standard of device protection against electrical or data gremlins, you should use an protective adapter when plugging into a public USB (although this would likely prevent fast charge negotiation (which most public sockets can't do anyway)).

MilesT | 11.12.23 - 3:45 p.m. | #











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