TfL Bus Shedules

[jay38a]

Think the TfL bus schedules site maybe having issues...V extras with journeys listed at 01:00 and 04:00. The correct times are listed on the pages below those.

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Nov 3, 2020 22:59:14 GMT jay38a said:

Think the TfL bus schedules site maybe having issues...V extras with journeys listed at 01:00 and 04:00. The correct times are listed on the pages below those.

It's because of the directions. You can't schedule a trip solely on the back direction - you must have a trip scheduled in the out direction as well - so they schedule a phoney trip in the out direction which doesn't actually run in practice just to get around this.

[jay38a]

Nov 3, 2020 23:01:01 GMT @mhv85 said:

Nov 3, 2020 22:59:14 GMT jay38a said:

Think the TfL bus schedules site maybe having issues...V extras with journeys listed at 01:00 and 04:00. The correct times are listed on the pages below those.

It's because of the directions. You can't schedule a trip solely on the back direction - you must have a trip scheduled in the out direction as well - so they schedule a phoney trip in the out direction which doesn't actually run in practice just to get around this.

Strange as you don't get these weird trips on one way school routes.

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Nov 3, 2020 23:04:08 GMT jay38a said:

Nov 3, 2020 23:01:01 GMT @mhv85 said:

It's because of the directions. You can't schedule a trip solely on the back direction - you must have a trip scheduled in the out direction as well - so they schedule a phoney trip in the out direction which doesn't actually run in practice just to get around this.

Strange as you don't get these weird one way trips on one way school routes.

Because the one way school routes will be specified in the out direction. For these extras they use the directions from the normal route so if the extras only run in the back direction then they need to put in a phoney trip in the out direction as well.