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Post by riverside on Feb 22, 2017 19:53:35 GMT
A decline in patronage on route 100 of over 40% since 2010 is a worryingly large drop in passengers and should be ringing alarm bells in TfL. Instead they seem to accept that their job is to manage the decline of bus services in central London. All very depressing. Looking at the magic spreadsheet it's actually 45% since 2010. There was a huge drop, more than 550k pass jnys, in 2015/16. This will be the result of the CSH works in and around Tower Hill and on Blackfriars Road and gyratory works at E&C - a triple whammy of delays. The performance graphs for the route are woeful - the route has never met its targets except for 3 periods out of 26 for EWT. Can't imagine Go Ahead have been very happy about that. Meanwhile Abellio will no doubt be delighted they lost the route given what followed. Thanks for that information. We have the daft situation where TfL are undertaking projects to improve journeys for some travelers(usually cyclists) that seriously disadvantage other travelers(bus passengers). Surely TfL should be attempting to strike a fairer balance between the needs of these competing interests. Agony after agony has been piled onto the 100 by the virtually simultaneous implementation of these schemes. TfL have certainly managed to achieve a modal shift in this case but not one in which they should take any pride. The outlook for buses in Central London is bleak when the authority in overall charge of them is quite happy to nonchalantly accept a material decline in service for passengers. Not long ago we had the Year of the Bus. Looks like TfL should name 2017 NOT the Year of the Bus.
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Post by snoggle on Feb 22, 2017 20:52:45 GMT
Looking at the magic spreadsheet it's actually 45% since 2010. There was a huge drop, more than 550k pass jnys, in 2015/16. This will be the result of the CSH works in and around Tower Hill and on Blackfriars Road and gyratory works at E&C - a triple whammy of delays. The performance graphs for the route are woeful - the route has never met its targets except for 3 periods out of 26 for EWT. Can't imagine Go Ahead have been very happy about that. Meanwhile Abellio will no doubt be delighted they lost the route given what followed. Thanks for that information. We have the daft situation where TfL are undertaking projects to improve journeys for some travelers(usually cyclists) that seriously disadvantage other travelers(bus passengers). Surely TfL should be attempting to strike a fairer balance between the needs of these competing interests. Agony after agony has been piled onto the 100 by the virtually simultaneous implementation of these schemes. TfL have certainly managed to achieve a modal shift in this case but not one in which they should take any pride. The outlook for buses in Central London is bleak when the authority in overall charge of them is quite happy to nonchalantly accept a material decline in service for passengers. Not long ago we had the Year of the Bus. Looks like TfL should name 2017 NOT the Year of the Bus. When I spoke to "senior TfL person" at the Community Day event at WW they acknowledged that things have gone badly askew. The problem is that Mayoral priorities will *always* win out. Buses did well under Ken because he had clear, pro-bus policies. Therefore TfL prioritised money and effort on the bus network. The problem under Boris, and I think Sadiq Khan, is that there were / are no pro bus policies so therefore no extra money and no policy priority was set. Boris was extremely lucky that patronage kept rising for a long while and things only started to unravel when he knew he was going. At that point TfL "persuaded" him, or, as I suspect, just went ahead anyway with boosting the money for bus improvements because Sir Peter Hendy knew that things were not sustainable. However there was no sustainable basis for that policy change which is why we have the unravelling nightmare we have. A lot of people criticise Ken L but he did the sensible things of adjusting the fare regime and adding targetted concessions *and* also investing in service quality and capacity. What we have with Mayor Khan is a typical Labour policy of artificially constraining price but doing nothing by way of investment. Worse the bus network is now a policy tool for air quality because it's under Mayoral control. The downside is that there is no policy to actively make the bus network more attractive for people so they will get out of their cars! This means we are going to get sub optimal decision about bus services. This shoddy, incoherent approach to policy is why I get so cross. So much time, money and effort is wasted off the back of badly organised policies and poor outcomes.
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Post by warton on Apr 4, 2017 15:46:13 GMT
This should be happening soon I presume, as the proposal route bus stops have already received the number tiles and the discontinued section have the tiles removed.
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Post by ThinLizzy on Apr 4, 2017 16:32:19 GMT
Thanks for that information. We have the daft situation where TfL are undertaking projects to improve journeys for some travelers(usually cyclists) that seriously disadvantage other travelers(bus passengers). Surely TfL should be attempting to strike a fairer balance between the needs of these competing interests. Agony after agony has been piled onto the 100 by the virtually simultaneous implementation of these schemes. TfL have certainly managed to achieve a modal shift in this case but not one in which they should take any pride. The outlook for buses in Central London is bleak when the authority in overall charge of them is quite happy to nonchalantly accept a material decline in service for passengers. Not long ago we had the Year of the Bus. Looks like TfL should name 2017 NOT the Year of the Bus. When I spoke to "senior TfL person" at the Community Day event at WW they acknowledged that things have gone badly askew. The problem is that Mayoral priorities will *always* win out. Buses did well under Ken because he had clear, pro-bus policies. Therefore TfL prioritised money and effort on the bus network. The problem under Boris, and I think Sadiq Khan, is that there were / are no pro bus policies so therefore no extra money and no policy priority was set. Boris was extremely lucky that patronage kept rising for a long while and things only started to unravel when he knew he was going. At that point TfL "persuaded" him, or, as I suspect, just went ahead anyway with boosting the money for bus improvements because Sir Peter Hendy knew that things were not sustainable. However there was no sustainable basis for that policy change which is why we have the unravelling nightmare we have. A lot of people criticise Ken L but he did the sensible things of adjusting the fare regime and adding targetted concessions *and* also investing in service quality and capacity. What we have with Mayor Khan is a typical Labour policy of artificially constraining price but doing nothing by way of investment. Worse the bus network is now a policy tool for air quality because it's under Mayoral control. The downside is that there is no policy to actively make the bus network more attractive for people so they will get out of their cars! This means we are going to get sub optimal decision about bus services. This shoddy, incoherent approach to policy is why I get so cross. So much time, money and effort is wasted off the back of badly organised policies and poor outcomes. The policy should really be: stop digging up the roads and speed up traffic flows.
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Post by warton on Apr 8, 2017 7:30:52 GMT
As expected, the changes for these routes have commenced today.
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Post by DT 11 on Apr 8, 2017 9:04:20 GMT
As expected, the changes for these routes have commenced today. Additionally Elephant & Castle now has another operator/group CT Plus. Sullivan Buses Tower Transit Uno The Odd three out I don't include London Sovereign or Quality Line as they are part of RATP
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