12 March (Part 2) - What is the point of our Express bus?
With
an appointment with a dentist in Broadway for 11:30 just a hundred
or so yards from the Lion Road bus stop an SL3 from Abbey Wood seemed like the obvious
choice. Non-stop to Bexleyheath Station and then Lion Road.
I left home at 10:32 but a pulled calf muscle turned the seven minute walk into
twelve. I needn’t have hurried, no suitable buses were due. Two 229s in quick
succession but it takes a horrible slow route and only as far as the Clock Tower.
A B11 in 11 minutes but it takes a silly meandering route before it gets to Lion
Road and an ‘every ten minutes’ 301 to the Clock Tower in 20 minutes.
Where’s the Express SL3?
Just to confuse me the 301 showed up before the B11 and thanks to little traffic and a good connection in Bexleyheath I made Lion Road at 11:22.
Once the 301 had cleared the phone App an SL3 showed up at 27 minutes. This is no way to run an Express bus service for the Elizabeth line.
The same delay as I encounterd on SL3 opening day.
With impeccable timing I limped home to find that Sadiq Khan has been spamming the BiB Inbox again.
