On 8 Nov, 19:11, Paul Corfield wrote:
On Sun, 8 Nov 2009 09:46:22 -0800 (PST), martin

wrote:
Spotted in Clapton: a notice at a bus stop announcing "double deck
buses and a more frequent service for Route 38 - starting Saturday 14
November".

Correct

It says the N38 frequency will increase to a bus every 12 minutes; no
mention of the daytime frequency.

At weekends it is x12 on each leg so every 6 minutes Picc Circus to
Walthamstow. The N38 has always been double deck.

The frequencies for the daytime service are increased at all times I
think. Up to every 2-3 mins or so in the peaks.

Note that only half the service on M-F (not evenings) extends beyond
Hackney Central to Clapton Pond. *This is a break with the more usual
"all buses run end to end" approach to TfL services although there have
always been exceptions (186, 221).

Wasn't that more "all routes will be shortened to improve reliability
statistics", with the result that routes that had included stopping
short of the end of the route no longer did so, and new overlapping
routes got created (eg 36 into 36 plus 436)?

The 208 still runs in overlapping sections though.