“Irregular and infrequent” 13 bus raised with Mayor of London
Controversial changes to the 13 bus route have been raised with the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan by Labour London Assembly Member for Barnet and Camden Andrew Dismore. In a written question, Mr Dismore outlined a series of complaints he had received from residents and asked if they supported the objections from residents to the scrapping of the original route.
In his answer, the Mayor said “While there is sufficient capacity on route 13 when running reliably, Transport for London (TfL) has identified some performance issues on the route over the past few months, with the route not meeting its reliability targets and a number of buses not running the full length of the route. In response, TfL and the operator are working closely to develop a reliability scheme as quickly as possible. They plan to introduce this scheme in late summer 2017.”
Mr Dismore said:
‘I don’t think TfL appreciate the level of anger from residents about the state of the 13 bus service. It is a very poor service, being irregular and infrequent. It is always full and seldom completes the full route in either direction. I am meeting TfL managers to put my concerns and those of residents directly to them. TfL should recognise the service is failing and unpopular, and restore the original 82 and 13 bus services.’
