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Post by snoggle on May 25, 2018 16:04:11 GMT
That 7min hasn't moved in 10mins and its only going half way. No thru bus to Hackers for over 20mins (+10 waiting) in the Friday PM peak. Welcome to Walthamstow, meet Mini Holland, he'll be your guide... I suspect it is more to do with road works or similar on Forest Road at Palmerston Road. It's been jammed heading west for most of the day. EDIT Seems I was wrong - problems in Homerton will be screwing up the W15
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Post by busoccultation on May 25, 2018 16:13:01 GMT
That 7min hasn't moved in 10mins and its only going half way. No thru bus to Hackers for over 20mins (+10 waiting) in the Friday PM peak. Welcome to Walthamstow, meet Mini Holland, he'll be your guide... I suspect it is more to do with road works or similar on Forest Road at Palmerston Road. It's been jammed heading west for most of the day. Police incident on Forest Road with the 123 being affected and was on diversion, by looking at Google maps it looks like the incident has happen somewhere between the Fire Station and Lloyd Park/William Morris Gallery.
EDIT: The 123 has now returned to its normal route though Forest Road
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Post by snoggle on May 25, 2018 17:08:13 GMT
I suspect it is more to do with road works or similar on Forest Road at Palmerston Road. It's been jammed heading west for most of the day. Police incident on Forest Road with the 123 being affected and was on diversion, by looking at Google maps it looks like the incident has happen somewhere between the Fire Station and Lloyd Park/William Morris Gallery. It didn't. It was further east up near Woodford New Road as buses were diverting via the A046 to the Billet or via Hale End Rd and A406 going east. That's what I've seen on an "alternative info source".
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Post by marlon101 on May 26, 2018 17:16:22 GMT
Anybody on here with any knowledge, experience or connection to Guideline Coaches or Access Travel of Dartford? Had some very 'interesting' experiences employing their services this week!
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Post by RandomBusesGirl on May 27, 2018 8:04:54 GMT
Well, whilst you lot either slept tight or enjoyed the thunder from a secure spot, someone was thrown in to battle the element last night… What should've been ONE 57 home turned into 5 buses and a walk, as the road just after Raynes Park got closed off right in front of 2 buses, one of them mine. The driver told us we'll be stuck there most likely for hours and that we'll be best off walking. So off I go towards Wimbledon Station where buses should technically turn around so I can get home… Little rain then thankfully. I pass few police cars and 3 buses on the other end, one of which manages to turn around as I walk... Nothing hinting what possibly could've closed the road as I don't see anything like tree branches. Of course quite a crowd at the shelter and here comes the heavy rain flowing!
A 57 to Clapham Park, sooo many people trying to get on except they move so slowly and literally a shower of water falls on anyone trying to get on, I notice it shows Kingston for some reason, but iBus and countdown show C.Park and since it had hardly anyone on, I assume it just turned around and the driver hasn't yet changed the blinds. Plus this IS the northbound stop, Kingston buses serve a different one. I would've asked the driver but there are so many people that if I blocked the flow they would immediately gang up on me for daring to exist. In hindsight, I really should have as you've guessed it - the bus was really towards Kingston! Having picked up a lot of confused people going OPPOSITE and immediately going on diversion route via 163/164 with no notice - people quickly got annoyed and disembark the bus - not exactly wise given it's after midnight and everything stops running now, and it's not even the normal line of route but a middle of nowhere... I wait till we rejoin the line of route at Raynes Park, but once we get to a junction, the driver says the road is closed and has to wait for instruction from the controller. I see an Aldwych N87 going opposite but two foolish women blocking up the stairs ignore my "excuse me" and the bus leaves before I get around them. I stay on the bus, annoyed, but then an unlikely rescue bus in form of a 152 comes, so I run across the road, and few others follow suit and ask if it goes Wimbledon ("South yes"), whilst I know exactly where I'm going: Merton garage. Surely some 57s should be passing through there! And indeed, only a 3min interchange there; I take pictures of the huge puddle outside the entrance to AL in mean time.
At Tooting it's announced the bus will be curtailed to St Leonard's Church, a final blow! As usual stupid TfL stats/targets BS wins over common sense! If it was driving times then it would've finished at AL before anyone says anything. Luckily I check nearby bus times and there is something I can connect to for last stretch home - of course not from the kick-out stop, which I leave quickly as I can tell it could get heated. Oh, have I mentioned the original bus I got has somehow reached Streatham by the time I got to Tooting? Yep they got around somehow in the end and didn't curtail either.
I got home at 1:30am instead of 0:20 it normally would've, and I don't think others were this lucky - I expect a lot of Ubers were ordered that night... Once again TfL know best how to defer custom... If someone who knows London buses struggled in this chaos, you can only imagine what it was like for civilian folk!
The photos:
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Post by DOE27 on May 27, 2018 9:34:55 GMT
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Post by YY13VKP on May 27, 2018 9:58:46 GMT
Definitely fake. If you see the history of the route a double decker has never worked the 455 (It says E224 did but this was actually SE173 before they correctly programmed the radio) and E188 is a Sutton vehicle. The person who did that is also known for making blind edits, some pretty good I must admit. I wonder if the 455 could use a double decker crosslinked from the 127 for a school journey that goes as far as Purley because the low Bridge at Old Lodge Lane is the only thing preventing a double decker on the 455.
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Post by M1104 on May 27, 2018 10:02:12 GMT
Well, whilst you lot either slept tight or enjoyed the thunder from a secure spot, someone was thrown in to battle the element last night… What should've been ONE 57 home turned into 5 buses and a walk, as the road just after Raynes Park got closed off right in front of 2 buses, one of them mine. The driver told us we'll be stuck there most likely for hours and that we'll be best off walking. The drains were getting blocked up along Walpole Road (that road after Raynes Park).
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Post by YY13VKP on May 27, 2018 15:39:13 GMT
I may be overreacting but I feel that this person has gone a bit too far www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFdB5QfH3e0&t=7sI was alerted by a subscriber earlier about this (this video itself is old but in the users newest video there was a moment stating they would do another one) There is no reason to start making this kind of bulls**t and calling it comedy just to earn money on youtube People have a hobby : doesn't matter if it's football or buses,its still a hobby! I personally hate football but just because the majority like it and think its good doesn't mean that everyone has to like it. I find it disgraceful that they created this video And yet if you type in "awkward hobby football"-no results similar to search!! Why do bus enthusiasts always get picked on I watched a bit of it, I think it says more about him than it does about bus spotters. And I've never heard Lewisham called Lewis ham before! I actually thought this was much funnier: m.youtube.com/watch?v=DSPWoAjnA1oLooks like one of those wet rollercoaster rides!
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Post by 725DYE on May 29, 2018 17:07:34 GMT
So I was sorta running behind this morning and ended up getting the 127 after the one I usually do - this might not seem so bad but morning traffic means that the 127 doesn't exactly stick to its so-called 12 min frequency in the peaks but nothing to worry about. I was hoping for a quick journey and then I'd have nothing to worry about. When I got on I kinda recognised the driver - its a bit hard with the 127 there are a lot of drivers. Its not like my other local routes like the 166, 463 or S1 where a regular passenger tends to see drivers on a more regular basis. So this driver leans to face some people near the back of the bus by the exit door and shouts "IF YOU DO THAT AGAIN YOU'LL BE OFF MY BUS!" - I'm not the most alert person in the morning so I was relatively bewildered So as we kept going on it became apparent that this driver wasn't happy about people standing near the rear doorway. Multiple times he used the PA to tell people to move away from that space. Now I'm sorry but who does this guy think he is . Its the morning peak and the bus is packed, you can't just expect everyone to move out of the door space even when no one is trying to get off. The driver said it was slowing him down but by making all this fuss it was actually him slowing us down more! Some people eh? Just had him again how does this guy not get bored!
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Post by sid on May 29, 2018 19:30:44 GMT
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Post by busaholic on May 29, 2018 21:55:04 GMT
14 people with minor injuries, one man (presumably the bus driver) arrested on suspicion of careless driving and, apparently, still in custody some hours later, as reported by BBC London news.
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Post by sid on May 30, 2018 4:34:38 GMT
14 people with minor injuries, one man (presumably the bus driver) arrested on suspicion of careless driving and, apparently, still in custody some hours later, as reported by BBC London news. Looking at the carnage it's lucky that there are only minor injuries. The mind boggles as to how this happened and why the bus was in that part of Hythe Street in the first place.
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Post by kmkcheng on May 31, 2018 5:47:03 GMT
I have a question regarding circular routes like H9/H10 etc. If for example the H9 gets curtailed to Rayners Lane, does it run light to Harrow to start another trip since it can’t go back in the same direction it came from? Or does it take stand time at Rayners Lane then continue the circular trip afterwards? What is the whole procedure for routes like that? It’s most likely run light back to Harrow to start the next duty. If their next duty is on one of the cross links with H10 and they are running very late, they may take up service on it and go back round the other way from where they were curtailed
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Post by busaholic on May 31, 2018 20:34:59 GMT
I have a question regarding circular routes like H9/H10 etc. If for example the H9 gets curtailed to Rayners Lane, does it run light to Harrow to start another trip since it can’t go back in the same direction it came from? Or does it take stand time at Rayners Lane then continue the circular trip afterwards? What is the whole procedure for routes like that? I don't have an answer to your question, but I grew up in Eltham in the 1950s where we had one of the very few circular routes, the 132. Buses worked from Eltham Well Hall Station via Blackfen, then either Danson Road, Bexleyheath Town Centre and Old Bexley, or the reverse back to Blackfen. There were peak hour journeys Eltham to Blackfen, otherwise all buses did the loop in either direction. I never once saw a bus curtailed at Bexleyheath, for instance, from either direction. The buses weren't worked from Bexleyheath garage, of course, because that was a trolleybus depot at the time. The only exception was the Sunday afternoon service from Well Hall to Bexley Hospital, via Old Bexley, with its blank via blinds all round. The buses all came out of the late, lamented Sidcup garage and (unusually for the time) didn't have 'live' garage journeys as far as I'm aware. My favourite route of all time, although the 160 has to be up there too.
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