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Also used for temporary TfL routes. 800–899 Regional and national coach services. 900–999 One mobility buses route within TfL, detailed below. Other letter-prefixed routes Local day routes, including 24-hour services, with the letter denoting a key area the bus travels through. EL-prefixed routes East London Transit routes.
A spider map is a schematic diagram of bus services serving a particular locality, as used by Transport for London since 2002. [1] The maps were designed by T-Kartor . Generally mounted on the vertical surfaces of bus shelters it enables potential travellers to select the correct stop to board a bus, and the correct one to alight at.
Buses have been used on the streets of London since 1829, when George Shillibeer started operating his horse-drawn omnibus service from Paddington to the City.In 1850, Thomas Tilling started horse bus services, [6] and in 1855 the London General Omnibus Company (LGOC) was founded to amalgamate and regulate the horse-drawn omnibus services then operating in London.
This is a list of cycle routes in London that have been waymarked with formal route signage include 'Cycleways' (including 'Cycle Superhighways' and 'Quietways) and the older London Cycle Network, all designated by the local government body Transport for London (TfL), National Cycle Network routes designated by the sustainable transport charity Sustrans, and miscellaneous 'Greenways' created ...
The Superloop branded proposal for a network of express orbital bus routes was announced on 28 March 2023 at a cost of £6 million. [14] [15] Transport for London noted that the proposals form part of improvements to transport in outer London in light of the expansion of the Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) in August 2023. [16]
[10] [11] [12] New passenger information screens were also introduced on one bus on the route. [13] [14] [15] In 2018, two Van Hool A330FC hydrogen fuel cell buses entered service on the route. [16] [17] Following declining usage and a frequency cut in February 2018, it was proposed by Transport for London that the route be withdrawn. [18]
Transport for London (TfL) is a local government body responsible for most of the transport network in London, United Kingdom. [ 2 ] TfL is the successor organization of the London Passenger Transport Board , which was established in 1933, and several other bodies in the intervening years.
London Overground (also known simply as the Overground) is a suburban rail network serving London and its environs. Established in 2007 to take over Silverlink Metro routes, it now serves a large part of Greater London as well as Hertfordshire, with 113 stations on the six lines that make up the network.