Borismaster Routes near Kings Cross

[ainsworth74]

Not much good on a bus not moving in traffic and slowly heating up, further helped by the passengers on board.

Anything would be better than whatever it excuse for cooling they have right now! If they weren't so heavy because of all the hybrid nonsense perhaps AC could have been fitted.

 

[Antman]

Well, it had to happen I suppose, but on 12th December inst, almost a decade to the day that RMs disappeared from the route and out of the ordinary lives of Londoners, the 159 is to be converted to the Borismaster. Adding insult to injury, the route is being snatched from Arriva's Brixton garage and awarded to Abellio, whether to operate from Croydon or Battersea remains to be seen. The 159 had previously been due to receive these buses under the current regime, with use of conductors, until policy change at the top saw them introduced on the 137 instead, without conductors, even though Arriva London South had already started advertising the posts! Now I wonder who paid for that superfluous expenditure?!

Abellio will run the 159 from Battersea. Arriva have been losing routes at an alarming rate for sometime now so much so that there are doubts over their long term future in London.

 

[dmncf]

Could anyone advise which routes that go round the Kings Cross station area are run by Borismasters? I will have ~90 mins to kill in London tomorrow and, having never used a Borismaster, see it would be a good opportunity (using Oyster) given it is a weekday and they will have conductors.
TIA

If you're in Kings Cross and want to take look at some other items of interest, you might also want to check out route 59 which runs from Kings Cross towards Euston and has an indicator on the lower deck telling passengers how many seats are available on the upper deck.
https://www.tfl.gov.uk/info-for/media/press-releases/2015/april/upper-deck-seat-indicator-trial-extended-to-route-59

 

[Andyh82]

If you're in Kings Cross and want to take look at some other items of interest, you might also want to check out route 59 which runs from Kings Cross towards Euston and has an indicator on the lower deck telling passengers how many seats are available on the upper deck.
https://www.tfl.gov.uk/info-for/media/press-releases/2015/april/upper-deck-seat-indicator-trial-extended-to-route-59

That's an interesting feature, anyone know how accurate it is?

Does it detect a seat occupied by a small child?

 

[jon0844]

Or a coat/bag?

 

[transmanche]

That's an interesting feature, anyone know how accurate it is?

Does it detect a seat occupied by a small child?

It'll detect a seat occupied by a bag!

There's a really good video from Londonist which shows the system in action.

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TL;DR TfL haven't decided how to best display the infomration to passengers, the CCTV screen diaply is an experiment. It could end up being an audio announcement or some other method.