"Sky Fly" wrote in message
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Here's an idea I thought about to improve bus services in
London. Instead of having all bus routes serve all bus stops
in London, there would be a division of bus routes into
'local' and 'express' bus routes.

Local routes would serve all currently designated bus stops,
but their range would be limited so that no journey was longer
than 5 miles. This would be to improve reliability - the
longer a bus route, the greater the chance that 'bunching'
will happen and the more the timetable is thrown out of
whack.

Express routes would serve specially designated stops (which
would be at major town centres - as an example, the 109 which
currently runs from Brixton to Croydon might stop at Brixton,
Streatham, Norbury, Thornton Heath and Croydon). The routes
would be longer distance routes, because the limited stops
would mean that the journey would be a lot faster.

Any comments?

I run a Nat ex service out of London bound for the Kent Coast. There is
nothing in theory stopping people from purchasing tickets say from London to
Lewisham for which the journey time is between 32 and 40 minutes. This
represents the fastest available time by road using bus lanes. Is it a
worthwhile saving compared to using a bendibus 436 between the same two
places?