On 09/09/2015 19:15, Peter Smyth wrote:

tim..... wrote:

"David Cantrell" wrote:

On Mon, Sep 07, 2015 at 07:09:10PM +0100, Paul Corfield wrote:

If we had an appalling night bus service then I might understand
the attraction of a night tube but the Night Bus is very good and
especially at weekends. If nothing else it will typically get
people closer to where they live than a tube line will given the
great spread of bus stops across London.

Almost all bus stops have no night bus.

I don't think you've looked at the network recently

"almost all" is most certainly wrong

I think you'd have a problem justifying a "more than half" claim

There are 19825 London bus stops, of which 7852 (39.6%) are served by
at least one night bus.

Thanks for calculating that!

I thought David Cantrell's comment was well wide of the mark - you've
provided empirical proof!

Perhaps he only takes notice of N-prefixed night bus routes - they used
to be the only night buses in town. However some years ago TfL started
running some night buses on the exact same route as their day
equivalents - rather than having an N-prefix, these services are
described as "24 hour" instead.

I'm a great fan of night buses in London.