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"Aidan Stanger" wrote: Robert Woolley wrote: With roll-out of the fully accessible fleet in London, there is a progressive withdrawal of the Mobility Bus network Are you sure? UIVMM most of the Mobility Bus network is in the outer suburbs, with long routes that penetrate into estates that regular routes do not, to provide disabled and elderly people (and anyone else who wants to use them) a 1 seat ride to the most popular destinations. You *are* very much mistaken. Robert was quite right - there is a progressive withdrawal of the Mobility Bus network. In Autumn 1998, 23 buses were needed to operate the Mobility Bus network. By Autumn 2003, only 10 buses were needed. Many routes have been withdrawn - so many, in fact, that the 8xx series of route numbers is no longer needed (the remaining routes are all numbered in the 9xx series). Even these figures are a little misleading. Then and now, First Thamesway need 3 buses for their Mobility Bus routes. In 1998, their network was fairly typical of this sort of operation - ten routes, each running one or two days a week, with typically one return journey per day. Now, they only serve two routes - but each route runs six days a week and has a number of journeys. The emphasis is much more on plugging gaps in the mainstream network, rather that providing a specialist service supplementing the mainstream network (as before) - and it wouldn't seem strange if these two routes were renumbered to become (albeit rather infrequent) mainstream routes in their own right. Bearing this in mind, the "true" Mobility Bus network has declined from 23 buses to just 7 buses over 5 years. -- MetroGnome ~~~~~~~~~~ (To email me, edit return address) |
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