603 bus
The bigwigs from Transport for London came to Parliament to meet with the London Lib Dem MPs to answer specific questions from them. Quite a line up! Tim O’Toole (tube), David Brown (surface transport), Ian Brown (overground) and the Commissioner for Transport – Peter Hendy.
Needless to say my constant refrain is ‘gissa bus’ – and specifically the extension to a full time route for the 603. What is like trying to get blood out of a stone is the cycle where I ask, I get told that a full time route is not financially viable - but then they won't say what demand level will make it viable. However, today after pushing and pushing the point, David Brown has said that he will finally get back to me with some sort of figure. I could see scepticism in his eye – because he is convinced that the model TfL use to assess viability predicts demand accurately. I say bollocks to that. Anyway – I want to try and prove their model wrong. So – if they say 10 passengers per hour or 20 or whatever – I will find them!
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Do they really know how many people are using the 603? And will they give you figures broken down by journey type? Experience using the buses in central London is that many people do not Touch In, for various reasons (legit and the rest), so don't get counted. Get on via the driver and flash an ENCTS bus pass (what a failure by DfT to create a brand - these are the outside London issued bus passes for the elderly and disabled) and the driver might, just might occasionally press a button on the ticket machine.