I can see there are some good proposals included in these 'consultations', with thought given to how travel patterns will change once Crossrail comes about, and how to help passengers to access stations on the new line by bus, BUT I find huge discrepancies in how the three separate areas have been treated by TfL. Many more medium-distance journeys will now be by rail in all these areas, and probably short-distance ones in both West and East London owing to the increase in frequencies, largely at the expense of bus routes, but the short-distance impact in SE London will be minimal with only two stations, Abbey Wood and Woolwich Arsenal, and the main effect being abstraction from South Eastern and DLR rail services. Yes, more passengers will probably now wish to commence a rail journey at Abbey Wood and, to a lesser extent, Woolwich, but the idea that the busy corridor between Woolwich, Charlton, Greenwich and Lewisham can be deprived of buses overall, and direct services axed, is a complete nonsense, and can't be justified by the Elizabeth Line's existence. Actually, although it's impossible to gauge the number of buses required in these SE London changes, my rough calculations are that the proposals are broadly neutral i.e. no increase in buses, or possibly one or two at best. with a few token conversions of single deck to double deck on some routes that, in practice, may already see deckers. On a 20 minute daytime frequency, like the 178, that is meaningless!
To finish, I'll just mention the 25 cutback to Holborn Circus from Oxford Circus - this would mean a passenger from Ilford, Stratford, Bow, Aldgate etc would need two changes of bus, there no longer being a direct bus link by any route to Oxford Circus from any of these places, not even Holborn Circus. The 8 only goes to Tottenham Court Road now - you'd need to get to Holborn Station to get a 55 or 98. Somebody in TfL's bus dept. has cocked up bigtime!
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