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Let’s get
the bad news out of the way first:
Routes 23 25 28 30 31 58 69 70 212 236 266 308 328 339 425 444 488 W14 W15 N28 N31 N97 N550 N551 are delayed/cancelled due to #BusStrike— TfL Bus Alerts (@TfLBusAlerts) September 12, 2016
Now for the
good news; the 1 hour hopper fare is in force.
The @MayorofLondon has launched the Hopper fare. 2 journeys for £1.50 when you change bus or tram within 1 hour pic.twitter.com/jdQBVcnR6X— TfL Bus Alerts (@TfLBusAlerts) September 12, 2016
From TFL Fares page
Hopper
fare
Two bus or tram journeys for the price of
one.
Make a journey using pay as you go on a bus
or tram, and you can make a second bus or tram journey for free within one hour
of first touching in.
You must touch in using the same card on the
second bus or tram.
Hopper fares apply to adult and discounted
rate pay as you go journeys.
A Hopper fare will not apply if:
·
You make a
journey on Tube, DLR, London Overground, TfL Rail, Emirates Air Line, River Bus
or National Rail services between the first and second bus or tram journey
·
Your
Oyster card has a negative pay as you go balance after the first journey. If
you clear the negative balance within one hour of touching in, you can still
make the second journey for free
·
You use an
Oyster card to change from a tram to a bus at Wimbledon station. For these
journeys, an automatic refund for the second fare will be paid to your Oyster
card
Hopefully
this scheme will reduce fare evasion on the 3 door 2 staircase hybrid bus
called the New Routemaster.
Also, what
they’re not mentioning is that the hopper fare does not apply to the non-London
buses.
I’m also
happy to report that the £4.50 daily cap for London Buses has been retained.
I’ll finish
off the news with an update from LOTS:
1) The LTs
for Arriva route 253 are still parked up at Edmonton awaiting some essential equipment, although a
few LTs from the route 73 allocation are
in use on the route. More LTs are
now in use on the 189 as the Brent Cross bus parking problem is now being controlled. Delivery continues of new
Metroline VWHs for Harrow Weald and also Arriva London StreetLites (batch SLS
1-22) for route 450 at Norwood. The next
batch of BYD/ADL buses (batch SEe 13-22) has begun to arrive for the 507/521
as well and it looks as though the MHVs (batch MHV 21-85) for Go-Ahead London
are imminent.
2) At Arriva Southern Counties, the Volvo
B7RLEs replaced by new E400MMCs on route 310 have moved to Harlow and are
topping up allocations on routes 508/509/510 and 724 and replacing the
remaining Dart/ Pointers. Most of the 12
Citaros in MAX livery from Midlands (batch 3007-3018) are now in service on
Arriva the Shires routes 800/850 (Wycombe- Reading), its B7RLEs being
transferred away from Wycombe to Luton and Midlands. More DAF/East Lancs double-decks have arrived
at Luton and are helping to cover the programme of DDA-fitments on the older
Tridents there.
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