No it isn’t. That date comes from an FOI request document which includes a line saying the earliest possible date would be 4 April, however no actual date has been confirmed.
Thanks for that. I thought that would be very much the case as TfL usually get advance publicity and comms out. Plus the Mayor mentioning that his dad was a bus driver!
No, and probably not for a few months yet.
It won't be starting until September at the earliest. Anything that states SL12 starts tomorrow was a false rumour that unfortunately got spread around.
That's the first I've ever heard of this map. As someone who used to stare at bus maps as a kid, I might get myself a copy!
Some buses do interwork with other routes - I recall the R3 interworking with the R4 at some stage until the Streetlites introduced were unsuitable for one of the routes so the interworking ceased. Also buses do work from day routes onto N-night routes.
That's disappointing, TFL have given up publishing maps which is a disgrace for a Capital City & massive tourist destination, think the last TFL map was 2016, the TFL spider maps can often be out of date, & there is no spider map for Uxbridge.
From memory, a small number of school routes are linked to a main route, and buses interwork for the approx 200 days a year they run, but generally majority of school routes are operated separately from garages.
Each route is contracted separately. There are some that inter work extensively (406/418 and 209/378) but this reflects the nature of their contracts.
209 & 378 won't be for much longer, both routes are being restructured later this year which sees the 209 taking over the 533 route to Hammersmith. 209 will be going to First and the 378 is off to Transport UK.
There's nothing stopping operators intetworking buses on separately contracted routes. However, it's generally not a good idea because frequencies mean there'd be little or no resource savings, plus the potential impact of delays being imported from one route to another.
There are strong commercial (and other reasons) for treating each contract as a self contained unit.
Yes and most of the time night routes are included in the same contract as their day equivalent
Night schedules may cause confusion for those not used to the 32½ hour clock.TFL call it crosslinks, some routes do interwork with other routes, i remember the X68 (before it became SL6) interworking with a few routes.
This is the best one to go to, just type in the number
They generally use the same vehicles, but often there's no strict interworking. By late evening several buses will usually have finished for the day and will then be selected for Night service as it starts - but with no repeated pattern.
Probably those fully charged up, or not requiring any maintenance that night.
Agreed, the night schedules are barmy, would think drivers sometimes get confused by them too.
I think drivers are usually given a duty card with normal times on them. These schedules are the ones the systems use. I used to have fun pulling data out of them.
On paper there are specific vehicle types allocated. In practice of course things may be different.
Sometimes yes sometimes no. There is only one GB Kite at Merton and is strictly allocated to the 219. Other than that, routes in the garage have their allocations but can see strays for a plethora of reasons.
