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Post by LX09FBJ on Sept 10, 2016 11:44:14 GMT
Yesterday I went on the full 83 from Ealing Hospital to Golders Green with VW1770. I left at around 1440 and the trip was booked for 88 minutes. It actually ended up taking 111 minutes and I don't recall there being a lot of traffic. Driver was quite fast too. That is the longest I've been on the same bus anywhere, beating the previous record by 25 minutes. Note that it doesn't include coaches! It took me 95 minutes to do the route end-to-end with a slow driver between Ealing and Alperton. Record currently stands at 99 minutes it took for me to clear the 36, although I've had journeys of 70 minutes on the 111 (typically takes between 15-20) between Hampton and Kingston.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2016 14:24:57 GMT
Yesterday I went on the full 83 from Ealing Hospital to Golders Green with VW1770. I left at around 1440 and the trip was booked for 88 minutes. It actually ended up taking 111 minutes and I don't recall there being a lot of traffic. Driver was quite fast too. That is the longest I've been on the same bus anywhere, beating the previous record by 25 minutes. Note that it doesn't include coaches! It took me 95 minutes to do the route end-to-end with a slow driver between Ealing and Alperton. Record currently stands at 99 minutes it took for me to clear the 36, although I've had journeys of 70 minutes on the 111 (typically takes between 15-20) between Hampton and Kingston. Any of my usual 23 end to end journeys typically take about 150-170 minutes.
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Post by kmkcheng on Sept 10, 2016 19:24:07 GMT
Where is the 483 standing in Harrow?
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Post by stubag on Sept 10, 2016 20:19:34 GMT
Where is the 483 standing in Harrow? According to Centrecom this morning outside St George's shopping centre, kymberley Road. All the drivers were getting it wrong.
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Post by J on Sept 10, 2016 20:53:53 GMT
Just happened to chance upon this whilst travelling through Collier Row today. Has the 483 really been extended out this far?
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Post by snoggle on Sept 10, 2016 21:08:52 GMT
Just happened to chance upon this whilst travelling through Collier Row today. Has the 483 really been extended out this far? Dear God. How (swear word) useless can TfL get? No spider maps online for the 83 / 483 change. 483 not recognised by the TfL website. No press release online to give people a hint of the changes. No tweets about the changes either from what I can see. Unbelieveable.
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Post by Hassaan on Sept 10, 2016 21:29:59 GMT
Just happened to chance upon this whilst travelling through Collier Row today. Has the 483 really been extended out this far? Ah, so that's why one stop on the 483/N83 hadn't been updated! yesterday Glacier Way towards Wembley still showed 83 24h instead of 483/N83, when all the others had been updated
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Post by RandomBusesGirl on Sept 10, 2016 21:45:17 GMT
Glacier Way has been updated as of today 1AM.
Seriously, this mishap now convinces me the TfL tiling people take some hard drugs. I've found a "24h daily" tile on the 101 recently!!! And the overdue original 24h tile is still at another stop also, 11 years after N101 was axed LMAO
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2016 23:19:08 GMT
Just happened to chance upon this whilst travelling through Collier Row today. Has the 483 really been extended out this far? That is absolutely incredible. Unless you are a photoshop maestro 😂
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Post by thewintersoldier on Sept 11, 2016 1:07:06 GMT
Just happened to chance upon this whilst travelling through Collier Row today. Has the 483 really been extended out this far? Dear God. How (swear word) useless can TfL get? No spider maps online for the 83 / 483 change. 483 not recognised by the TfL website. No press release online to give people a hint of the changes. No tweets about the changes either from what I can see. Unbelieveable. I'm guessing the swear word was 'smegging?' It's almost like TFL wanted to keep the 83/483 a secret
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Post by vjaska on Sept 11, 2016 1:08:32 GMT
Where is the 483 standing in Harrow? According to Centrecom this morning outside St George's shopping centre, kymberley Road. All the drivers were getting it wrong. Indeed it is. I was a little curious myself after I got off a 483 in Harrow so followed it to the stand
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Post by vjaska on Sept 11, 2016 1:23:31 GMT
First impressions of the 483 are that it's a route of two contrasts though admittedly, this is all based on my one journey and watching other buses pass by. Like the 83, it starts off fairly quiet between Ealing Hospital & Ealing Broadway not taking on too many people before succumbing to the shoppers at Ealing Broadway. Some people were a little baffled here with one woman needing reassurance that the 483 went to Wembley. From here to Wembley Central Station, we were quite busy and just like the 83 would normally do, we were picking up at nearly every stop whilst crawling through the slow moving traffic along the A406, Hanger Lane & through Alperton except at Alperton, a number of passengers made a beeline for an 83 in front - wonder if that was out of distrust for a unknown bus or they needed to go to Wembley Park and beyond! After Wembley Central Station, the bus was carrying more fresh air than passengers and two passengers who'd recently got on thinking they could reach Wembley Park ASDA had to disembark just as quick for the 83 that was behind us - once they got off, we picked up just one passenger between Wembley High Road & Harrow Bus Station and that was near Northwick Park Hospital! Every stop we pulled into, people looked so confused as if they'd fallen into a parallel universe with some new fangled 483 route - the 83 that was behind us meanwhile was taking all the passengers and becoming overloaded as a result. All the 483's I saw between Wembley Stadium & Harrow had light loads as well.
So far, it seems that either the new link to Harrow hasn't caught on yet or people just aren't interested in it.
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Post by COBO on Sept 11, 2016 1:57:44 GMT
First impressions of the 483 are that it's a route of two contrasts though admittedly, this is all based on my one journey and watching other buses pass by. Like the 83, it starts off fairly quiet between Ealing Hospital & Ealing Broadway not taking on too many people before succumbing to the shoppers at Ealing Broadway. Some people were a little baffled here with one woman needing reassurance that the 483 went to Wembley. From here to Wembley Central Station, we were quite busy and just like the 83 would normally do, we were picking up at nearly every stop whilst crawling through the slow moving traffic along the A406, Hanger Lane & through Alperton except at Alperton, a number of passengers made a beeline for an 83 in front - wonder if that was out of distrust for a unknown bus or they needed to go to Wembley Park and beyond! After Wembley Central Station, the bus was carrying more fresh air than passengers and two passengers who'd recently got on thinking they could reach Wembley Park ASDA had to disembark just as quick for the 83 that was behind us - once they got off, we picked up just one passenger between Wembley High Road & Harrow Bus Station and that was near Northwick Park Hospital! Every stop we pulled into, people looked so confused as if they'd fallen into a parallel universe with some new fangled 483 route - the 83 that was behind us meanwhile was taking all the passengers and becoming overloaded as a result. All the 483's I saw between Wembley Stadium & Harrow had light loads as well. So far, it seems that either the new link to Harrow hasn't caught on yet or people just aren't interested in it. I hope that the passenger of passengers will build up.
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Post by snoggle on Sept 11, 2016 6:14:29 GMT
First impressions of the 483 are that it's a route of two contrasts though admittedly, this is all based on my one journey and watching other buses pass by. Like the 83, it starts off fairly quiet between Ealing Hospital & Ealing Broadway not taking on too many people before succumbing to the shoppers at Ealing Broadway. Some people were a little baffled here with one woman needing reassurance that the 483 went to Wembley. From here to Wembley Central Station, we were quite busy and just like the 83 would normally do, we were picking up at nearly every stop whilst crawling through the slow moving traffic along the A406, Hanger Lane & through Alperton except at Alperton, a number of passengers made a beeline for an 83 in front - wonder if that was out of distrust for a unknown bus or they needed to go to Wembley Park and beyond! After Wembley Central Station, the bus was carrying more fresh air than passengers and two passengers who'd recently got on thinking they could reach Wembley Park ASDA had to disembark just as quick for the 83 that was behind us - once they got off, we picked up just one passenger between Wembley High Road & Harrow Bus Station and that was near Northwick Park Hospital! Every stop we pulled into, people looked so confused as if they'd fallen into a parallel universe with some new fangled 483 route - the 83 that was behind us meanwhile was taking all the passengers and becoming overloaded as a result. All the 483's I saw between Wembley Stadium & Harrow had light loads as well. So far, it seems that either the new link to Harrow hasn't caught on yet or people just aren't interested in it. Eeh dearie me - you young things expecting crush loads on day one of a service that has had no marketing, no publicity and no information. Give it a week or so and people will be hopping on board with gay abandon and give it 6 months and I expect we will see respectable numbers. IIRC Mr Thin Lizzy reported that the revised EL2 was like the Marie Celeste at Barking Stn on the first working day. A week later - ram-a-roony packed full. Doesn't take people too long to adjust to these things but I just wish TfL got their information effort right and put in some promotional effort. The past where "buses fill themselves" doesn't seem to be happening - patronage this year is 34m pass jnys down on last year so something is wrong given many of the road works are finished and the much promised "bounce back" isn't materialising.
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Post by COBO on Sept 11, 2016 18:15:02 GMT
I do wish that TFL made the promotion posters for the 483 bigger so that passengers sorry I mean customers had a better understanding. There was a customer asking "what is the 483? I have never been on the 483?" Only the countdowns are promoting the 483. A IBUS on a 83 that I was on was promoting the 483 on Friday.
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