Reports in the Evening Standard and The Times say that the two
"heritage" routes on which Routemasters will run will be based on the
central sections of routes 9 and 15, as follows:

Piccadilly Circus - Trafalgar Square - Strand - Fleet Street -Ludgate
Hill - Cannon Street - Eastcheap - Tower Hill.

Royal Albert Hall - Knightsbridge - Piccadilly - Trafalgar Square -
Strand - Aldwych.

The buses are expected to run every 15 minutes between about 09:30 and
18:30, 7 days a week. TfL say that Travelcards will be valid on the two
routes, and that standard fares will be charged. Companies were being
invited to tender for the routes.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...672228,00.html

--
Richard J.
(to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address)

In article ,
(Richard J.) wrote:

The buses are expected to run every 15 minutes between about 09:30 and
18:30, 7 days a week.

They have got to be joking! Hardly a turn up and go service, even for
tourists.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

Colin Rosenstiel wrote:
In article ,
(Richard J.) wrote:

The buses are expected to run every 15 minutes between about 09:30 and
18:30, 7 days a week.

They have got to be joking! Hardly a turn up and go service, even for
tourists.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

Does this mean the existing 9 and 15 routes will remain, with a higher
frequency but that every 2nd or 3rd bus will be a RM in the central
area? Or will the heritage services have new route numbers?

"umpston" wrote in message
oups.com...

Does this mean the existing 9 and 15 routes will remain, with a higher
frequency but that every 2nd or 3rd bus will be a RM in the central
area? Or will the heritage services have new route numbers?

I'll hazard a guess at H9 and H15.

Ian

"Ian F." typed


"umpston" wrote in message
oups.com...

Does this mean the existing 9 and 15 routes will remain, with a higher
frequency but that every 2nd or 3rd bus will be a RM in the central
area? Or will the heritage services have new route numbers?

I'll hazard a guess at H9 and H15.

Ian


Ummm... H9 already exists; it's the H10 doing the loop 'backwards'.

--
Helen D. Vecht:
Edgware.

Helen Deborah Vecht wrote:

"Ian F." typed
"umpston" wrote in message
groups.com...

Does this mean the existing 9 and 15 routes will remain, with a higher
frequency but that every 2nd or 3rd bus will be a RM in the central
area? Or will the heritage services have new route numbers?

I'll hazard a guess at H9 and H15.
Ummm... H9 already exists; it's the H10 doing the loop 'backwards'.

I'd vote for 9A and 15A - or perhaps 9H and 15H to stop people being
disappointed when they encounter the 77A!

I believe there was a time when a few route number suffix letters got
up to and beyond H.

Colin McKenzie

In message ,
Colin Rosenstiel writes
The buses are expected to run every 15 minutes between about 09:30 and
18:30, 7 days a week.

They have got to be joking! Hardly a turn up and go service, even for
tourists.

--
Colin Rosenstiel
Think yourself lucky, in parts of West Cumbria a bus an hour would be
considered a good service, no wonder we need cars and lower fuel taxes
to make up for you fabulous P.T. And we have tourists.
--
Clive

On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 14:20 +0100 (BST), (Colin
Rosenstiel) wrote:

In article ,
(Richard J.) wrote:

The buses are expected to run every 15 minutes between about 09:30 and
18:30, 7 days a week.

They have got to be joking! Hardly a turn up and go service, even for
tourists.



I'm waiting for Ken's next U-Turn!
He'll withdraw these routes after a few months because disabled people
can't use them.


Dave

(David) wrote in
:



I'm waiting for Ken's next U-Turn!
He'll withdraw these routes after a few months because disabled people
can't use them.


Dave


Wrong. He'll withdraw these routes after a few months because they come
nowhere near to covering their costs :-)

The obvious cost saving measure would be to combine the two routes and run
Albert Hall to Tower. Oh, but you can't do that as it doesn't duplicate an
existing route and so would fall foul of the DDA....

"Richard J." wrote in message
. uk...
Reports in the Evening Standard and The Times say that the two
"heritage" routes on which Routemasters will run will be based on the
central sections of routes 9 and 15, as follows:

Piccadilly Circus - Trafalgar Square - Strand - Fleet Street -Ludgate
Hill - Cannon Street - Eastcheap - Tower Hill.

Royal Albert Hall - Knightsbridge - Piccadilly - Trafalgar Square -
Strand - Aldwych.

The buses are expected to run every 15 minutes between about 09:30 and
18:30, 7 days a week. TfL say that Travelcards will be valid on the two
routes, and that standard fares will be charged. Companies were being
invited to tender for the routes.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...672228,00.html

--
Richard J.
(to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address)


Sounds like it's going to end up like the San Francisco trams.
Where the two tram routes left (from the city centre area) are mainly for
tourists who want to ride the SF icon.
A half an hour or more wait for a tram is almost guaranteed but worth it for
a tourist.
and forget starting your journey at any other place appart from the
terminating stops.

Shame really!

ANDY