I travelled on the 49 on Saturday, pleased to see that at last it's
changed to double-deckers instead of jam-packed single-deckers.

Unfortunately it seemed to have moved to pretty packed double-deckers
instead!! I assume this was partly due to the weekend closure of the
District & Circle lines, with passengers travelling between High St
Kensington & Gloucester Road / South Kensington.

However, not as many people got off at either of these stops as I
expected; certainly at Gloucester Road a very significant number of
people got on, and they can't have been using it just to get to South
Kensington. I got off there so I don't know where everyone was going.

If the large number of people using the route was due to the engineering
works, then that's understandable; however if it wasn't, then TfL will
have to look at bolstering frequency on this route as well as having
introduced DDs.

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Dave Arquati
Imperial College, SW7
www.alwaystouchout.com - Transport projects in London