Londoners have been swiping Oysters on the city’s big red buses far less often than we were pre-pandemic, and it’s led Transport for London (TfL) to rethink some of the city’s routes. In January, we reported on a series of proposals to axe, cut short or re-route six popular London bus routes. Then, in March, another 13 got reduced to ‘better reflect current traffic levels’.
Now, the Big Smoke’s transport provider is making more changes, withdrawing one of north London’s major buses altogether. TfL’s latest proposal, will look to ‘change the routeing of bus route 149 and to withdraw route 67’, it said in a statement.
Here’s everything you need to know about the potential changes.
Route 67
The 67 bus currently operates between Wood Green and Dalston Junction. If TfL’s proposed plans go ahead, the route will be completely withdrawn and replaced with the 149 bus, whose route is in consultation.
If the plans go ahead, the 149 would stop at all of the same stops as the 67, apart from Stop N in Dalston Junction Bus Station, but passengers would be able to use Stop C on Kingsland Road instead.
Route 149
The 149 bus currently operates between Edmonton Green and London Bridge, but TfL wants to change the northern part of its route to begin in Wood Green instead. This would mean the bus would no longer pass the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium or travel through Bruce Grove, Seven Sisters and South Tottenham. Instead, its new route would stop at Turnpike Lane, West Green Road, La Rose Lane and St Anne’s Road before linking back up to the bus’s original route in Stamford Hill.
As is already the case, the 149 bus would then travel along Kingsland Road towards Haggerston and Hoxton before passing through Shoreditch, Liverpool Street and Monument, terminating at London Bridge.
The changes for both bus routes aren’t set in stone, and TfL is now holding an eight-week public consultation until September 20 to hear from Londoners about the impact that the proposal would have.
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