Didn't I just say the 65 bus route stunk?
This article is absolutely right. Much as I love London buses, the 65 route - which is pretty much the only one on its route (where I am), so there is no ability to use other buses - is hands down the absolute worst service in London.
It cannot be blamed on roadworks alone. I have stood at a bus stop at the Ealing/Brentford border in the freezing cold, dark night, and watched NINE 65 buses go past down the other route. I have waited for a hour sometimes, and none of the nine buses have deigned or bothered to oome the other way until at least a hour has passed. There are no roadworks between my bus stop and Ealing Broadway. Where do all those buses go and what holds them up? Surely there must be a bus backlog somewhere in Ealing? Then of course, once a bus has turned up, it then gets caught between two or three other 65 buses, which is stupidity itself, because none of the buses is remotely full. So of course there's a near-jam and a crawl of buses and you may as well have walked - if not for the fact that it's a long walk between Ealing and Kingston, where I normally take the 65 bus to. It's gotten so bad that I usually just get off at Richmond and get the train.
But yes. Nice to have confirmation that one - as one has suspected for quite some time - lives on the worst bus route in London.
It cannot be blamed on roadworks alone. I have stood at a bus stop at the Ealing/Brentford border in the freezing cold, dark night, and watched NINE 65 buses go past down the other route. I have waited for a hour sometimes, and none of the nine buses have deigned or bothered to oome the other way until at least a hour has passed. There are no roadworks between my bus stop and Ealing Broadway. Where do all those buses go and what holds them up? Surely there must be a bus backlog somewhere in Ealing? Then of course, once a bus has turned up, it then gets caught between two or three other 65 buses, which is stupidity itself, because none of the buses is remotely full. So of course there's a near-jam and a crawl of buses and you may as well have walked - if not for the fact that it's a long walk between Ealing and Kingston, where I normally take the 65 bus to. It's gotten so bad that I usually just get off at Richmond and get the train.
But yes. Nice to have confirmation that one - as one has suspected for quite some time - lives on the worst bus route in London.