Reports in the Evening Standard and The Times say that the two
"heritage" routes on which Routemasters will run will be based on the
central sections of routes 9 and 15, as follows:

Piccadilly Circus - Trafalgar Square - Strand - Fleet Street -Ludgate
Hill - Cannon Street - Eastcheap - Tower Hill.

Royal Albert Hall - Knightsbridge - Piccadilly - Trafalgar Square -
Strand - Aldwych.

The buses are expected to run every 15 minutes between about 09:30 and
18:30, 7 days a week. TfL say that Travelcards will be valid on the two
routes, and that standard fares will be charged. Companies were being
invited to tender for the routes.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...672228,00.html

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Richard J.
(to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address)

In article ,
(Richard J.) wrote:

The buses are expected to run every 15 minutes between about 09:30 and
18:30, 7 days a week.

They have got to be joking! Hardly a turn up and go service, even for
tourists.

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Colin Rosenstiel

Colin Rosenstiel wrote:
In article ,
(Richard J.) wrote:

The buses are expected to run every 15 minutes between about 09:30 and
18:30, 7 days a week.

They have got to be joking! Hardly a turn up and go service, even for
tourists.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

Does this mean the existing 9 and 15 routes will remain, with a higher
frequency but that every 2nd or 3rd bus will be a RM in the central
area? Or will the heritage services have new route numbers?

"umpston" wrote in message
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Does this mean the existing 9 and 15 routes will remain, with a higher
frequency but that every 2nd or 3rd bus will be a RM in the central
area? Or will the heritage services have new route numbers?

I'll hazard a guess at H9 and H15.

Ian

"Richard J." wrote in message
. uk...
Reports in the Evening Standard and The Times say that the two
"heritage" routes on which Routemasters will run will be based on the
central sections of routes 9 and 15, as follows:

Piccadilly Circus - Trafalgar Square - Strand - Fleet Street -Ludgate
Hill - Cannon Street - Eastcheap - Tower Hill.

Royal Albert Hall - Knightsbridge - Piccadilly - Trafalgar Square -
Strand - Aldwych.

The buses are expected to run every 15 minutes between about 09:30 and
18:30, 7 days a week. TfL say that Travelcards will be valid on the two
routes, and that standard fares will be charged. Companies were being
invited to tender for the routes.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...672228,00.html

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Richard J.
(to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address)


Sounds like it's going to end up like the San Francisco trams.
Where the two tram routes left (from the city centre area) are mainly for
tourists who want to ride the SF icon.
A half an hour or more wait for a tram is almost guaranteed but worth it for
a tourist.
and forget starting your journey at any other place appart from the
terminating stops.

Shame really!

ANDY

"Ian F." typed


"umpston" wrote in message
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Does this mean the existing 9 and 15 routes will remain, with a higher
frequency but that every 2nd or 3rd bus will be a RM in the central
area? Or will the heritage services have new route numbers?

I'll hazard a guess at H9 and H15.

Ian


Ummm... H9 already exists; it's the H10 doing the loop 'backwards'.

--
Helen D. Vecht:
Edgware.

londoncityslicker wrote:

Sounds like it's going to end up like the San Francisco trams.
Where the two tram routes left (from the city centre area) are mainly for
tourists who want to ride the SF icon.

I imagine you mean the cable cars (there are still plenty of trams).

And there are three cable car routes.
--
Michael Hoffman

"Michael Hoffman" wrote in message
...
londoncityslicker wrote:

Sounds like it's going to end up like the San Francisco trams.
Where the two tram routes left (from the city centre area) are mainly for
tourists who want to ride the SF icon.

I imagine you mean the cable cars (there are still plenty of trams).

And there are three cable car routes.
--
Michael Hoffman

No, he means the trams.

http://www.streetcar.org/ should explain.
The main "Light Rail" routes were put in a subway beneath Market St when the
BART (Metro) was built. But the surface tracks were retained andnow a
fleet of PCC cars and ex Milan Peter Witts ply the F/Market route up Market
and along the Embarcadero to Fishermans Wharf. There a plans for an E
route as well. The subway routes are J,K,L,M,N and you can see how they
(and the F) cars run at http://www.nextbus.com/predictor/stopSelector.jsp
and http://www.sfmunicentral.com/

"Michael Hoffman" wrote in message
...
londoncityslicker wrote:

Sounds like it's going to end up like the San Francisco trams.
Where the two tram routes left (from the city centre area) are mainly
for
tourists who want to ride the SF icon.

I imagine you mean the cable cars (there are still plenty of trams).

And there are three cable car routes.
--
Michael Hoffman

Sorry, yes I meant the cable car. (there are trams elsewhere in SF)

And yes you are right there are 3 routes in downtown SF.
but the two main routes are the ones predominatly used by tourists and the
follow the same route for the majority of the journey.
In a similar fashion to what they plan to do with the Routemaster. Hence my
comparison.

A.

In message ,
Colin Rosenstiel writes
The buses are expected to run every 15 minutes between about 09:30 and
18:30, 7 days a week.

They have got to be joking! Hardly a turn up and go service, even for
tourists.

--
Colin Rosenstiel
Think yourself lucky, in parts of West Cumbria a bus an hour would be
considered a good service, no wonder we need cars and lower fuel taxes
to make up for you fabulous P.T. And we have tourists.
--
Clive