Anyone seen TFL's new consultations over bus services
Did the West London one , and while some of the changes were good , I am appalled at their idea to butcher the 140 , cutting it to Hayes , while making the limited stop x140 , only from Harrow bus station , not Harrow Weald
The 427 is also being reduced dramatically
Those are the main two changes that are really bad imo , the others aren;t too bad , but they are unneeded , and like the Finchley Rd stuff , just a pointless way to rile passengers from Tfl
Intriguingly, the frequency of the X140 and its operating hours have been omitted! Can't disagree with the proposal, though, Harrow Weald was never part of the traditional 140 and was only tacked on for operational convenience when Harrow Buses got set up.How much time saving in reality, though, from Harrow to Heathrow? Only time will tell.
The 427 seems logical to me too, given the continued existence of the 207 and 607, and assuming some passengers will shift to Crossrail
To my mind, it is the other two areas of consultation which will produce the most controversy, namely N.E. London (so-called, I'd have called it as East London as you can get myself!) and S.E. London. In the former, what has long been suspected will come about, though perhaps not in quite the precise manner predicted, is the shortening of the 25, though not at the eastern end, perhaps surprisingly: instead it gets chopped back from Oxford Circus to Holborn Circus, meaning that OC will no longer be directly gettable to by bus from somewhere like St Pauls, whereas until recently you had the choice of an 8 or a 25, both high frequency. Come to that, from the other side of St Paul's Cathedral you had the 15 or 23 to OC, again no more! The frequency of the 25 is cut too.
What seems to me to be the most ludicrous proposal here is south of the river, and has already been discussed in this forum when I think the London Borough of Greenwich spilled the beans on the highly successful and apparently incredibly well-used 180 service being taken away from Lewisham to help cover the cuts to a North Greenwich service, and for its replacement by a wholly inadequate extension to the unloved 129, at a reduced frequency. I do notice TfL have not even bothered to try to explain the 'reasoning' behind this. Viewed as a whole, for this area the proposals show hardly any increase in the number of buses allocated, whereas for West and East London you can see there will be extra buses.
), although only one bus out of three went beyond Hayes Station (no mention of Harlington in those days either) or, probably, one in four in peak hours when there were Northolt shorts. It was always a fast route, with younger crews and much bunching. My visits to it were only sporadic, being far from my home, but I always enjoyed them. Just glad it still exists in recognisable form and still has a good frequency. Pleased to see HD still running it too!
