Changes to Night Bus services to complement Night Tube from September 2015
Overview
Faster journey times, more travel choices and new night bus routes
Night Bus services in London have increased beyond recognition in the
last 30 years. This reflects and supports changes to London’s vibrant
night time economy. The current comprehensive Night Bus network means
that most of zones 1 and 2 are within walking distance of a Night Bus
route, and London’s suburban Night Bus service is also amongst the most
comprehensive in the world.
There is every indication that night time travel in London will
continue to grow. From September 2015, we will be running a Friday and
Saturday Night Tube service on the Jubilee, Victoria and most of the
Piccadilly, Central and Northern lines. This means that many of our
customers will now have a choice between Night Tube or Night Bus. Our
analysis indicates that customers who take the tube instead of the bus
for all or part of their journey will save 20 minutes on average, and in
some cases up to an hour.
When Night Tube starts, we are proposing to continue all Night Bus
services, and introduce up to 20 new services and one extended service,
to help customers travel to and from Night Tube stations. This would
continue the expansion of the network. If our proposals go ahead, they
will contribute to another year on year increase in the number of Night
Buses on the road at weekends. This increase would include improvements
during this year to other services not affected by Night Tube.
Many suburban Night Tube stations are already well connected to
surrounding areas by existing Night Buses. Of our 20 proposed new Night
Bus services, 17 would run on Friday and Saturday nights, with three
running seven nights a week. These would help passengers start or finish
their Night Tube journeys, as well as providing new travel
opportunities to and from suburban local centres. All these new services
would follow the same route and run between the same points as the day
service.
On some Night Bus services extra buses run on Friday and Saturday
nights to meet increased weekend demand. On 17 out of 117 existing Night
Bus routes, where we have forecast that some passengers will chose to
use Night Tube instead, it would no longer be necessary to run as many
extra buses at weekends. This is based on detailed analysis of Oyster
card and passenger survey data. These 17 services would continue to
operate at their standard weekday frequency or more, providing a local,
fully accessible service to all stops along the route.
Proposals
Current
routes to become 24-hour services on Friday and Saturday nights:
34 High Barnet & Walthamstow
47 Shoreditch High Street & Canada Water Bus Station
114 Mill Hill & Ruislip Station
123 Wood Green & Ilford
132 North Greenwich & Bexleyheath
145 Leytonstone & Dagenham
154 Morden Station & West
Croydon
158 Stratford
& Chingford Mount
183 Golders Green & Pinner
296 Ilford & Romford
307 Barnet
Hospital & Brimsdown
319 Sloane Square & Streatham Hill
486 North Greenwich & Bexleyheath
E1 Ealing Broadway & Greenford Broadway
H32 Hounslow & Southall
H37 Hounslow & Richmond
W3 Northumberland
Park Station
& Finsbury Park
Station
W7 Muswell
Hill Broadway
& Finsbury Park
Station
All to be run at 30-minute frequencies apart from the W7 to be every 20-minutes
All to be run at 30-minute frequencies apart from the W7 to be every 20-minutes
New 7-days a week Nighttime routes:
222 Uxbridge & Hounslow
238 Stratford
Bus Station & Barking Station
Both routes to be run at 30-minute frequencies
Both routes to be run at 30-minute frequencies
Other
changes:
N47 Route withdrawn and replaced by 24-hour 47 and new N199
N199 New Nighttime route Trafalgar Square via London Bridge
to Canada Water Station then as
per current route 199 to Bellingham. Then onwards via Bromley and
Orpington to St.Mary
Cray
188
Nightime element re-routed to serve Canada Water Bus Station
N1 Re-routed via Evelyn Way in Deptford, withdrawn from Plough Way and Grove Street
N133 Extended from Mitcham via daytime route 118 to
Morden Station
N381 Re-routed to serve Canada Water Bus Station
Frequency
changes on the following routes:
14,
88, 94, 134, N5, N8, N9, N20, N29, N38, N73, N91, N97, N98, N155, N207
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