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Post by snoggle on Jan 26, 2019 19:01:37 GMT
I think my favourite line was this one: Both boroughs expressed their beliefs that the reduction in service will contribute to a reduction in congestion and emissions in central London." Quite a traffic jam, 3BPH creates! What Tower Hamlets and Westminster would make of the Oxford Street scheduling, goodness only knows! The reference to Tower Hamlets is bizarre. The 15H probably stands in Tower Hamlets but has next to no passenger service in the borough - just the short stretch past the Tower. It is noteworthy that the City of London is not referenced given that most of the 15H runs within the boundaries of the City rather than the other two boroughs mentioned.
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Post by vjaska on Jan 26, 2019 20:06:43 GMT
I think my favourite line was this one: Both boroughs expressed their beliefs that the reduction in service will contribute to a reduction in congestion and emissions in central London." Quite a traffic jam, 3BPH creates! What Tower Hamlets and Westminster would make of the Oxford Street scheduling, goodness only knows! The reference to Tower Hamlets is bizarre. The 15H probably stands in Tower Hamlets but has next to no passenger service in the borough - just the short stretch past the Tower. It is noteworthy that the City of London is not referenced given that most of the 15H runs within the boundaries of the City rather than the other two boroughs mentioned. Interestingly, the only part of the 15H that runs in Tower Hamlets is Mansell Street, Shorter Street & Tower Hill but the 15's stand is in City of London on Goodmans Yard along with Minories. The Tower of London is also located in Tower Hamlets along with the northern side of Tower Bridge Road.
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Post by wivenswold on Jan 26, 2019 20:29:57 GMT
I grew up with Routemasters and love them to bits but I think the proposal is a good one. Everything has its time. I think this and the "running days" is a good way to pay tribute to London's bus heritage.
Just think of the types of London buses it outlived. Not bad for a bus that was due to be replaced by 1978 under the London Reshaping Plan.
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Post by busaholic on Jan 26, 2019 21:41:16 GMT
I think my favourite line was this one: Both boroughs expressed their beliefs that the reduction in service will contribute to a reduction in congestion and emissions in central London." Quite a traffic jam, 3BPH creates! What Tower Hamlets and Westminster would make of the Oxford Street scheduling, goodness only knows! Why not go the whole hog and withdraw all bus routes in central London not operated by all-electric buses? Then, why restrict this to central London? This has echoes of B. Johnson's long-running campaign to rid London of bendybuses: assemble all the disadvantages (including those totally made-up) and discount all the advantages. Regrettably, TfL can no longer be considered a safe guardian of bus travel, and that's something I've never thought of it or its illustrious predecessors in the past.
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Post by MetrolineGA1511 on Feb 9, 2019 19:56:14 GMT
Seen this on another group! content.tfl.gov.uk/changes-to-route-15-heritage-buses.pdfSeems its going ahead from 2nd March. Seems so pointless to have these buses sat around in garage for weeks on end doing nothing! can't see it doing them good in the long run. Would have rather the service was just withdrawn! I reckon the residual service will be withdrawn when the current tender expires. TfL have catered for the initial disappointment of the withdrawal of the final RM/RMLs for so long that even their replacements (eg route 13 SLEs, route 14/22 WVLs and route 159 VLAs) have themselves been withdrawn recently. These RMs must be pretty expensive to maintain by now. Nowadays the general public are so used to buses being low-floor and often hybrid or even electric, and touching their Oystercard or contactless card on the reader in the bus, that they rarely if ever think back to days of Routemasters. That is, if they even lived in London in those days.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2019 21:05:17 GMT
Just a reminder tomorrow is the last day of the 15H before it goes Summer Weekends only!
I know its not ending as such but its the last time it will run on a regular weekday.
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Post by Londonbuses54 on Mar 1, 2019 6:56:30 GMT
Just a reminder tomorrow is the last day of the 15H before it goes Summer Weekends only! I know its not ending as such but its the last time it will run on a regular weekday. Noooo. I thought it was cut to all weekend, not just summer!?
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Post by snowman on Mar 1, 2019 7:04:22 GMT
Just a reminder tomorrow is the last day of the 15H before it goes Summer Weekends only! I know its not ending as such but its the last time it will run on a regular weekday. Noooo. I thought it was cut to all weekend, not just summer!? This year continuing at weekends through March, but going forward will only be last weekend in March to last weekend in September only. Also operates bank holidays between those dates. Think it is 09:30 - 18:30 only on days it runs
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