TfL Surface Transport Plan

[snoggle]

Just published by TfL for next week's Surface Transport Panel are two important documents.

Surface Transport Plan

Major Highway Improvements

I've only skimmed the documents but there is important bus stuff in the first document - bus priority works, extra NB4Ls plus the Zeus Electric double deck trial. The latter, on route 69, is now targetted for a start of vehicle trials in NOVEMBER 2015 which confirms my suspicion that there's been at least a 6 month delay.

There's a lot to read but I expect people will be interested to see what TfL have got planned and what their targets are.

The MD report also confirms the conversion of route 73 to NB4L operation. It also says the extra 200 NB4Ls will be modified in various ways.

Also noteworthy are the poor stats for overall bus patronage (down against targets), traffic congestion worse, bus reliability worse than last year and excess wait time worse than target and last year. That's all going well then - NOT!

[westhamgeezer]

May 7, 2015 14:39:53 GMT snoggle said:

Just published by TfL for next week's Surface Transport Panel are two important documents.

Surface Transport Plan

Major Highway Improvements

I've only skimmed the documents but there is important bus stuff in the first document - bus priority works, extra NB4Ls plus the Zeus Electric double deck trial. The latter, on route 69, is now targetted for a start of vehicle trials in NOVEMBER 2015 which confirms my suspicion that there's been at least a 6 month delay.

There's a lot to read but I expect people will be interested to see what TfL have got planned and what their targets are.

The MD report also confirms the conversion of route 73 to NB4L operation. It also says the extra 200 NB4Ls will be modified in various ways.

Also noteworthy are the poor stats for overall bus patronage (down against targets), traffic congestion worse, bus reliability worse than last year and excess wait time worse than target and last year. That's all going well then - NOT!

Its no surprise what with cycle superhighways, endless roadworks, ever increasing congestion that bus speeds are getting slower and slower. And I think this is the main thing that puts people off using the bus. The vast majority of any complaints I hear from my friends is...."The bus just takes forever"

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Thanks to Boris and tfl the bus services are getting worse all they care about are cyclist and their cycle lanes, under Ken bus services were alot better.