#london buses

[aneverydaything]

Day 1826, 23 June 2023

[yamnbananas]

On the Buses (Part 3)

[insidecroydon]

Watchdog in call to keep bus fares low and to speed up routes

A report by London TravelWatch, the capital’s independent transport watchdog, is urging widespread improvements to the capital’s bus service, including helping to speed up routes and keeping fares low The next stop: Superloop routes are commended in London TravelWatch’s report London TravelWatch said London’s bus network is “lifeline” to millions of Londoners, but it needs “urgent improvement” to…

[tonyebikemejr]

Day and Night

[famousinuniverse]

London, United Kingdom: London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of around 8.8 million, and its metropolitan area is the largest in Western Europe. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a 50-mile estuary down to the North Sea and has been a major settlement for nearly two millennia. The City of London, its ancient core and financial centre, was founded by the Romans as Londinium and retains its medieval boundaries. Wikipedia

[wgm-beautiful-world]

ICONIC RED BUSES LONDON

[thepastisalreadywritten]

A kaleidoscope of colour. Cars and buses whirl through Piccadilly Circus in London, 1960s.

[downingtwo]

cool kids always sit in the back of the bus, london, aug 2023

taken with olympus mju II bw film

[vintage-london-images]

It's 1970 and the traffic in London is as busy as ever, take a look at London Transport Routemasters and their older brethren the RT Type buses, mingle with commercial vehicles cars taxis and pedestrians on the streets and thoroughfares of the capital.

The music is The Theme From Shaft from the film Shaft released in 1971.

Please check out other posts with hashtag #video on @vintage-london-images

[bahoreal]

hey do you guys know about

the history of the bus?

they started as an "omnibus" a horse drawn two stop back and forth along a pre determined route! then they added more stops! they messed with the size of the omnibus and the number of horses until they hit the right size for the route!

(blease note these are intra-city buses, stagecoaches would go outside the city to specific locations and they generally required a reserved seat)

they basically SLAPPED A ROOF AREA to get roof passengers! double deck omnibuses!

then we get MOTOR OMNIBUSES! as the petrol engine is getting better! for context the first motor omnibus ran in 1899 - this is 13 years after the patent for the first petrol engine car (1886), 74 years after the first steam public railway in england (1825) and 36 years after the london underground was opened (1863). by 1911 there were no horse-drawn omnibuses owned by the london general omnibus company!

AND THEY WERE EVERYWHERE! (please look at the number of BUSES and INDIVIDUAL CARRIAGES [usually hired cabs] and PEDESTRIANS)

a lot of places switched to electric trams in the 1910s, public transport became reliant on the comparatively more efficient light rail or tram systems. the trams gave way to electric buses in london in 1930! they were much less dangerous than trams as people did not have to walk right into traffic to get on em

then as engines got more efficient trolleybuses were switched with petrol engine buses

then in the 1950s more people got cars and they began dominating the streets and creating.. traffic and. traffic laws. and stuff.

thanks for coming to my whistlestop bus lesson hope u have a brilliant day

[catilinas]

really good time at the museum but now i have noooooo energy :(

[yamnbananas]

The London Bridge is Over -12/2022

[insidecroydon]

'Suspect device' causes rush hour mayhem at East Croydon

Explosive situation: the scene outside No1 Croydon yesterday evening, just after the controlled explosion. Pic: ©SimonM A package left outside No1 Croydon – the Threepenny Bit building on Addiscombe Road, next to East Croydon Station – caused a high-level security alert during yesterday evening’s rush hour, closing the railway station and seeing tram and bus services diverted. The suspect device…

[nikki-rook]

Amazing moments becoming only memories gives a sad sinking feeling

[theinconvenientlifestyle]

[vox-anglosphere]

Vanishing London: the old double decker buses & black cabs