Tuesday 1 August 2017

Consultation report for the Bakerloo Line Extension and London Bus tender awards

First of all, the full report for the Bakerloo Line consultation is out. This is a brief follow up to my previous article.

From TfL consultations

Results Updated 31 Jul 2017

We recently consulted on proposals to extend the Bakerloo line beyond Elephant & Castle to Lewisham, serving Old Kent Road and New Cross Gate. Thank you to those who took part.

We received 4,899 responses to the consultation and a full report detailing our analysis of the consultation is available here

Our response to issues raised during the consultation will be published later this year.

You can read more about the Bakerloo Line Extension in a Wikipedia article here.

Here are the London bus tender awards reported by LOTS:

LBSL intends to enter into new contracts for the following routes with the operators listed below:

Route Current Operator New Operator PVR Vehicles
68/N68 Go Ahead London Central Abellio London 23 2016 Euro VI New Routemaster
468 Go Ahead London Central Arriva London South 30 New Euro VI hybrid double deck
X68 Go Ahead London Central Go Ahead London Central 10 New Euro VI hybrid double deck

Route N68 will be operated by Euro VI hybrid double decks from day routes 45 & 415.

All the above contracts will commence on 31st March 2018.

Route 68 is the second New Routemaster route which will change operator with the existing New Routemaster buses. The first New Routemaster route to change operators is route 15, which is changing from Stagecoach London to Go Ahead Blue Triangle; this is expected to happen on 26th August 2017.

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