I'm happy to see more evidence and see what it shows. If you have more evidence, that's great. If not, we've got this evidence for now. Were all journey times increased or was there no difference between the 119 and SL5? Was the SL5 slower?And many other journeys have taken a lot longer than 30 minutes but of course we don't want to hear about those do we?
I used to produce stats for London buses - the preference was always for as much data as possible to avoid just looking at one time of day to see what was happening.
More express buses (and rebranding existing ones) wouldn't have the first thing I'd done, but if they're successful and increase ridership I'd be happy to keep (and increase) them.I can't see Superloop as anything more than a quickfix bodge job from a mayor who is desperate to deflect attention away from the ULEZ expansion with an election coming up. I'd much rather see something more long term like Tramlink extensions to Bromley and Sutton and a lot more investment in orbital rail links as is happening in other capital cities around the world. Express bus services are generally just rail replacement services, the Croydon to New Addington express bus services were withdrawn once Tramlink opened because there was no need for them anymore.
My suspicion is that some of the routes will work well, whilst others won't. I'd prioritise more route priority measures on both these and other routes.
We'll see how successful they are - what's wrong with the 119?We'll see what happens after the mayoral election but I don't see the 119 and SL5 surviving in their current form in the long term.