Post by snoggle on May 13, 2013 10:37:25 GMT
Sorry for being a bit thick but are you saying each should be every 10 minutes or each every 20 to give a joint 10 minute headway on shared sections?
I think x10 for each would be complete overkill - I can't believe there is the demand for a x5 shared headway from Atkins Avenue to Camberwell Green given other overlapping services.
Don't mean to correct you but it's Atkins Road rather than Atkins Avenue.
Can I ask, where would the amended 45 & 445 run between:
Both run over the current 45 but the 445 diverts via the 12 & 343 or
45 runs from Clapham Park to Farringdon & 445 running from Brixton to Kings Cross via Camberwell Green, Southampton Way, Aylesbury Estate, then the current 45 to Kings Cross.
Don't worry about correcting my mistakes.
My idea was to keep both northern and southern terminals so as to maintain capacity on those sections. I agree you could change termini as you suggest but there are stand shortages at Farringdon / Holborn Circus because of Crossrail and Brixton is overloaded. Given KX is redeveloping I don't think there is merit in reducing the numbers of buses serving that area. When the old railway lands are all redeveloped it might make sense to extend the 45 a little further north to serve that area.
If you really wanted to fiddle about with Central area termini then you take the 445 and send it up Fleet St, round Aldwych, up Southampton Row and up to Russell Sq or Euston. This would give a couple of new "round the corner" links from Elephant and Southwark into Holborn and Bloomsbury which do not exist in the bus network today. Another option might be to run along the Embankment to Trafalgar Square as the 388 used to do. Gives a quick link to part of the West End from south of the river and would part relieve the 176.