E. Zackatackali wrote to uk.transport.london on Mon, 28 Feb 2005:

If you had the power to add/change/remove bus routes, what would you do?

There would be four changes I would make:

1. 35 - Shoreditch to Clapham Junction. I'd extend the Shoreditch end to run
to Hackney Central and truncate the Clapham Junction at Brixton. So there
would now be a link between South London and Hackney.

It's not all that many years since it *did* run to Clapton Pond.

2. 345 - Peckham to South Kensington. I'd reroute this at Brixton so that it
runs along the route of the changed 35 to Clapham Junction

Going back to what old bus maps tell me happened some 40 years or so
ago. Originally the 345 and the 45 were the same route, then they split
and the 345 was called the 45a, then the PTB decided to get rid of "a"s
and renumbered them.

Don't know the other two routes you mention. But what I would do, if I
had my way, would be to take either the 109 or the 250 or the 118, and I
don't think it much matters which, and have it turn left at Lambeth Town
Hall and go along Acre Lane, terminating at Clapham Common instead of
Brixton Station. It would make my life *so* much easier....
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