How Many Buses Can You Ride in an Hour?

[@DanielJohnNicholson]

I find it lovely that the mayor interacts with things like this :)

[@UrbanStories]

well, he has to, transport is a huge part of city admin :)

[@mrichards55]

Geoff Marshall has superstar status on Londonist

[@Jeremiah17v9]

The highlight of Sadiq's career!

[@thisisstuart7951]

being boring as hell

[@Chrnan6710]

@@thisisstuart7951 No Met extension to Watford Junction, no cycle infrastructure :/

[@bobwalsh3751]

Arguably yes.

[@tobeytransport2802]

Always good fun when I go to London riding the bus. I am from Kent but I have a bus pass (if I was a Londoner it would be a freedom pass) so I have to pay for the tube and DLR but the busses, as they are everywhere in England for me, are free and it’s always great that I can just go to a stop, wait a few minutes and get on the bus compared to where I live where you have to check the times and the busses are slow because people still use cash and paper tickets and even when you use contactless cards it still prints a paper ticket for you. I just drive around my town so London always amazes me how accessible it is on transport.

[@Jaxymann]

Sadiq is such a chill guy. Being the MP for Tooting for so many years means he really is a local bloke and knows what Londoners want to see in a Mayor.

[@avantgauche]

this is going to make me so lazy. Sadiq is right this is great for londoners on low incomes.

[@SomeBritishDud1]

@Mr. P. Enis Because it used to have the largest tram network in the world and when the trams went away, trolleybuses and later motorbuses replaced them. South London particularly needs them as the Tube doesn't go to places like Beckenham and Croydon.

[@DreamClean]

@Mr. P. Enis Like Sadik said at the start, large parts of Outer London like my home of Enfield is not well served by the tube at all. It takes me 60 minutes on bus to get to nearest Tube station or 20 minute walk to nearest Overground station.

[@themaconeau]

Zero. I can ride zero London buses in an hour. Why? Because its a bit hard to when you live in "the Penal Colony" :)

[@jaysmith5282]

Mac·au iii

[@thestargateking]

Mac·au I could probably ride 30 buses in an hour in Brisbane

[@jameslipscomb4916]

Mac·au If you mean Australia, I’m going to accept the challenge to travel on more than 16 buses in an hour in Sydney. Also the 343 is a good route in London and Sydney

[@marcuswellby1]

Only bus you need, falcon ute..

[@JamesPidgeon]

I use london buses living in london and theyre great

[@samuelshoesmith]

Yes! Love this move. Unlimited number of buses within an hour for £1.50. And interesting about the daily cap. I never knew about that! Love the enthusiasm shown here!

[@dansmith4601]

Cos I'm under sixteen all buses are free for me. I can go from Dorking to Upminster for free although it does take six hours

[@AymanTravelTransport]

In Wales, all TrawsCymru buses are free for everyone until May 2018 so you could get all the way from Wrexham to Carmarthen in six hours! I checked the timetables!

[@johnbouttell5827]

This is must be one of the best measures of a civilized society: 1 Infant mortality, 2 Hospital waiting times, 3 Buses in an hour ...

[@Ron_TTE]

Im from the future. Your favourite bus route will be the 399 from 2020

[@Match2100]

Sadiq seems like a nice guy

[@volvotrident4835]

Match2100 But I'm gonna miss diesel buses

[@practicallyfamous]

VolvoTrident ...and?

[@volvotrident4835]

Practically Famous And I like them.

[@practicallyfamous]

VolvoTrident Same here, but for the better they need to be changed. ( I'm gonna miss Diesel trains as well )

[@practicallyfamous]

Desperate Mohammedan the World's Strongest Arab An idiot in politics, yes. But on a personal/friendship level he seems like a guy you'd like to know.

[@tpmiranda]

Unlimited Bus Hopper is like how the Porto Andante System works. It times each journey so that you can change modes of transportation on the fly with the same ticket, meaning that you could, in the case of London, travel between zones 1 and 2 on any bus, train and tube train for 1 and a ¼ hour for a single fare.

[@grassytramtracks]

And it works the same in most places in mainlabd Europe. In most cities in the UK, if you need to take two buses, you have to pay twice and even in London you have to pay separately if you use a combination of buses and tubes

[@halbyg4291]

Try the TTC. You get unlimited travel on any bus, subway, streetcar or whatever for two hours on Presto. The cost is something like $3.50 Canadian. About £2.

[@thomasandfriendstrackmaste8599]

Did you know that 343 has been extended to Aldgate, 171 has been extended to Elephant and Castle and 172 has been extended to Aldwych. Note: 171 now does not go to Waterloo Bridge anymore and 172 does.

[@conorjm11]

Ahh, the 12, 40, and 176. All you needed to secure the Dulwich Library quintuple was the 185 and the 197.

[@LesD9]

Must be a very interesting place!

[@harveydee9115]

Finally! Geoff is doing buses!

[@nnmmnmmnmnnm]

This was great. More bus videos please - or 'Secrets of the Buses' etc.

[@mrbrianparker]

Sadiq's a good chap. Nice to see him on the vid.

[@wwemario12345]

Please hold on. The bus is about to move

[@joshuanichols8396]

wwemario12345 please hold on whilst the bus is moving....

[@mistywolf312]

That was fun, the hopper is a really good idea now. Oh and if i remember correctly there were some lady pensioners who rode all the bus routes start to end in London over the course of a year for fun.

[@EliteXtasy]

London Buses One Bus At A Time blog?

[@TransportGeekery]

It would have been hilarious if you’d got on an X68 unwittingly.

[@ShoaibKhan-bz5qm]

Andrew Saffrey Lmao

[@harveydee9115]

Andrew Saffrey even more hilarious if they got on an X26.

[@zebedep]

A very enjoyable video - thanks for posting!

[@therealslimadie]

I love these nerds.

[@syedia]

????

[@ccityplanner1217]

They've effectively changed the system from a flat-fare system to a timed one, as is common in Eastern Europe. In Prague the cheapest ticket gives you unlimited travel on trams, buses & the metro (I'm not sure if it includes national rail) for 15 minutes.

[@cigmorfil4101]

I hope that if your route takes more time than the limit (from end-to-end) you won't get charged extra.

[@AndrzejLondyn]

I'm in my wheelchair. And sometimes I had to wait nearly 45 minutes to get into single bus 25 operated by Tower Transit. There was not always lack of space, but in my opinion drivers don't want simply waste their times on sling ramps and etc. I wrote millions of complaints to the TFL without bigger positive changes. TFL is not always so great for the disabled.

[@NextSound170]

Nice to see you acknowledging buses too. Sadiq looking old, dealing with UK Politricks is a hard job.

[@themaconeau]

Happens to all of them.

[@mj897]

Not trying to hard enough in my book

[@NextSound170]

mj897 Too much opposition from shareholders whose interests aren't always on the right side of humanity. Good on Geoff I think its safe to say you can do 3 buses in an hour on a commute to work and

[@Andrewjg_89]

Perhaps you should do all the bus routes in and around London Geoff. I’m pretty sure that you could break the all time record of riding on every single bus and bus route in and around Greater London.

[@tomsmith5584]

Please hold on, this video is about to move.

[@domramsey]

It's got to be different routes or it doesn't count! Do it again! :)

[@Laurencepro99]

They did it in different directions and also no one said. They were just testing how many they could hop on and off in 1 hour.

[@allthebuses7627]

"how many buses" instead of "how many bus routes"!! Though you may be interested in our documentary...

[@Laurencepro99]

ikr

[@highpath4776]

Twitter informs me 16 different routes have been done in an hour

[@allthebuses7627]

Yes, you can see the video of that here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fqe0ep6vaNFgm9E

[@technical-3339]

171 to Bellingham, Catford Bus Garage. 176 to Tottenham Court Road. My favourites in the video :)

[@tahmedurrahman666]

I was shocked! That is a amazing achievement! All the bus routes in London within 24 hours. I swear the routes go from 1-500.

[@allthebuses7627]

There's a bunch of gaps, then there's a load of letter prefixed buses (awkward, these can be), then the night buses of course...

[@Smart1529]

Tahmedur Rahman its 1-499 but yeah

[@raheem201231]

And C10, P12, W8 ect

[@paulsengupta971]

"awkward, these can be" Yoda you are. My 50p I claim.

[@allthebuses7627]

Bus or bus not. There is no train.

[@tobortine]

Tremendous effort well done.

[@mikehocksbig]

The trusty 176, always gets me home at funny hours in the morning!

[@ParthaDey97]

This is the perfect advert for the new hopper fare, TFL should make promo material from it.

[@jenngw]

I must have just missed you. I saw them filming when I got on the 343 to Druid St that morning.

[@pauldevey8628]

That was a lot of fun. Hugo and Josh the next-gen Geoff Marshall?

[@joshuanichols8396]

Paul Devey Hmmm... that’s not my goal but myself and Hugo have many things planned for the next couple years with our team, @allthebuses. Follow them to find out what we’re doing....

[@allthebuses7627]

Nah, we're both rubbish at video editing :P -Hugo

[@pauldevey8628]

My comments are patially in jest but Geoffe is inspiring new and different urban and transpo explorations.

[@allthebuses7627]

We'll let you know if one of us regenerates into Geoff, or indeed if Geoff regenerates into one of us.

[@allthebuses7627]

You can watch our documentary (should be linked in the description) if you want to see what I'm like when I'm tired...

[@Todotodo23]

I love buses ❤😊

[@XNA2NW3]

A little jelly here. You talked to the mayor.

[@notsyort]

More importantly - he got to talk to Geoff Marshall!

[@simonwest9450]

Have you ever done the all tube lines challenge? (at least one stop on every tube line). Easy difficulty- all 11 tube lines Medium- +DLR, Overground and Tfl rail Hard- +trams and cable car When I'm visiting London in May I'm going to attempt it.

[@joshuanichols8396]

I've done the 11 lines in 42 minutes before, the current record is 33...

[@mikemenn2818]

1 hour? No, you just figured out a contest. How many can you do in 24 hours. Planning, eating, bathroom breaks, documenting, .... this is what you want. 24 hour bus hopping contest. 1 person. THAT'S the gauntlet.

[@allthebuses7627]

Been there, done that :P www.theguardian.com/world/shortcuts/2016/nov/27/london-bus-urban-transit-racer-adham-fisher Our team member Adham did this even before the 593 in 24 hours All The Buses was devised!!

[@allthebuses7627]

You can also see on how many different routes he travelled in an hour. kzbin.info/www/bejne/fqe0ep6vaNFgm9E

[@cholloway0046]

Nice getting Sadiq on the video!

[@josephkarl2061]

I saw the word 'whilst' in the description, and was pleased. I love grammatica obscura.

[@DavidGlendinning]

So at 4:49 the announcement should have been "Please move on - the bus is about to hold."??

[@geimzz]

In Milan it's always been like this, with unlimited buses and 1 metro access (in-station interchanges allowed) per 75 minutes for €1,50 (2 from next year)

[@PaulParkinson]

You need to do "how many _different_ routes in an hour" don't you?... Just going backwards and forwards along one stretch of road doesn't *really* count does it?

[@joshuanichols8396]

Paul Parkinson watch this space.... myself and the rest of @allthebuses have ideas....

[@PaulParkinson]

Yes, I thought that was the case but think my idea has merit.

[@unknown-im2bh]

It dose count

[@jonnyk5614]

You must be heaps of fun at parties....

[@barneycrawford3723]

Jonathan Kubiak says the one watching a video about bus fares

[@MA9494AM]

Had it here in Gothenburg for about 26 years now, well it's 90 min insted of 60. Costed ca 12 SEK back then, now it costs 27 SEK (£2.42)

[@user-vk8yq8oq7p]

MA9494AM it’s 70 minutes in London

[@erkinalp]

In İzmir, you got 90 minutes for 2.86TL. includes buses, trams, metro, ferries, commuter rail (shortest distance fare) in the city center(roughly corresponds to London zones 1,2 and 4-İzmir has a geographical barrier after the metropolitan core)

[@MA9494AM]

I was a bit unprecise, we got the same setup as Stockholm (part from the price), we even got the same company producing our ticketing machines (ERG) nowadays

[@paulsengupta971]

In Luxemburg you can travel the *whole country* for one fare. Ok, it's not a very big country.

[@joshuahalla.k.a.controlla6333]

This is the same day that I saw u at elephant and castle station:)

[@DoubleDeckerAnton]

Oh No...!!! This means more people will be bus hopping! So we will have to open the door two to three times at each bus stop! I can see this really ticking off my work colleagues! Everybody wins...except the driver...with even more stress piled on! We have timetables to keep to!

[@erkinalp]

The halt may last no longer than 30 seconds regardless of waiting passengers and only one halt per stop allowed.

[@DoubleDeckerAnton]

@@erkinalp ....I see a lot of passengers hopping from one bus to another....and if they are doing it to save another £1.50 ➡️ then it seems very desperate...!!!

[@erkinalp]

DoubleDeckerAnton Timed free transfers can and will be abused.

[@paradonym]

The first thing I do with such travel cards like the oyster is looking for handcrafted leather cases - just because I think it looks great and the protection would last at least two lifetimes...

[@harrytodhunter5078]

Mr Khan is such a nice man. Really genuine. Better than BoJo.

[@ChoobChoob]

Yay! No more arguing for a transfer voucher!

[@CBTstreams]

152 to New Malden Foutain Roundabout and 264 to Croydon Town Centre is my favourites...

[@chriswood5205]

Interesting that there is no requirement with the hopper to keep moving in the same general direction (ie, no doubling back). Most places that have this kind of facility (which means most cities in Europe) do impose that as a requirement, so I guess for once London is ahead of the pack on ticketing.

[@Buckeyecacher111]

The only guy on youtube that has ridden busses for an hour straight. Is that a record??

[@volvotrident4835]

You rode the last day of the 343 AS Abellio London

[@mothturtle7897]

The front seat is the best on the top floor of a double decker but on a single decker it's the back seat right over the engine. It's like sitting on a massage chair.

[@ARGreen316]

PLEASE HOLD ON WHILST THE BUS IS MOVING! I've done nothing else with my free time in the past 3 days than watch Londonist and Geoff Marshall videos, I think I know all I need to know about TFL even though the last time I went to London was 2009

[@timlandscheidt]

Interesting. I have never used a public transport system where there was a charge for changing between busses (and trams and subways). It must have been very complicated prior to that, minimizing the number of busses one used instead of just getting onto the next one that goes into the general direction of one's destination.

[@edcooper2396]

True, but most transport systems bill you based on the journey length, on the buses since Oyster its been a fixed fare.

[@zig131]

You don't 'touch out' on buses when you get off (I guess it wouldn't be enforcable as you'd touch out on an earlier stop to save money). As such it's a flat rate rather than a specific cost for a specific destination/number of stops.

[@lummatravel]

I think he means that in most of Europe you buy a ticket for a fixed amount of time and you can use any mode of transportation from the moment you validate the ticket (20 minutes, 2 hours, 24 hours, etc.)

[@erkinalp]

> (I guess it wouldn't be enforcable as you'd touch out on an earlier stop to save money) If you require touch out to unlock the exit door(and vice versa- touch in required to unlock boarding door except the front door which is controlled by driver), no one could touch in late and would touch out early. Other cases would be solved by occasional inspections.

[@katrinabryce]

There is also a daily cap of £4.50 (3 single fares), so previously, unless there was a direct route you could take, that is what you would pay to get to your destination and back no matter what. Now, you might get it for £3.00, or, if it is a very quick visit, you might get on the bus home within an hour of leaving the house and pay only £1.50

[@grahamjudge9336]

Can you do all the bus operators in the one hour time frame?

[@dobbo_f21]

impossible

[@joshuanichols8396]

I shouldn’t think so as they are so far spread and frequencies wouldn’t match.

[@perthsaint66]

Brilliant, love your vids.

[@EliteXtasy]

Geoff got to interview the Mayor of London?? He's going places ...literally.

[@reptongeek]

I just watched the All The Buses documentary. It boggles the mind how complicated it would have been to do. How did they verify 100% though. Did Hugh cross them off for everyone

[@dutchpublictransport6304]

Hallelujah! Dutch busses in London! Abellio is dutch and the small logo in the corner is the logo of the national railroad company of the Netherlands (NS)

[@thestargateking]

There's a busway where I live in Australia which in peak hour can have a bus every min or more, I wonder how many buses I can get in an hour, the only downside is that because it's a busway it can take 2-5mins to get to the next stop

[@JVerschueren]

This principle was rolled out in my country when I was 21, so nearly 27 years ago.

[@juliesmith5567]

I do not wait long for the bus but I really have never added up to how many busses I could use in at a certain time

[@VerbaleMondo]

*WHY IS EVERYONE IGNORING THE FACT THAT HE TALKED TO THE MAYOR?!*

[@2000guineas]

They give you a a few minutes extra over the hour too, which is good

[@pgchase4578043026]

"PLEASE HOLD ON WHILST THE BUS IS MOVING"

[@peterkay8073]

Upstairs, front seat over the driver, and stamping your feet, the best seat on the bus

[@highpath4776]

If you chose a fast long route then another long route within 59 mins you can go quite a distance. So maybe 607 then across heathrow (free anyway) then X26 if lucky bus terminates short get transfer ticket then catch something else.

[@gamerkayden8768]

I'm gonna do the bus hopper in Cardiff where the buses come late or never turn up. This is gonna be hard.

[@jezzam2034]

I was going to try and do this!

[@Jack-vn8gd]

Please hold on whilst the bus is moving-read the description for more info on this cool money saving tip, also cool video as ever getting up to your usual quirky challenges

[@DanielHarveyDyer]

Can we have a map of your amazing one hour journey up and down the Walworth Road please? I'd like to see if you actually got anywhere.

[@ph11p3540]

In Edmonton, Alberta (not London's Edmonton) you will be lucky if you can connect two buses inside of an hour. Our city is more spread out in area than London and bus frequency averages 30 minutes to an hour. Our transit system is lucky if it can server over half the city while keeping walking distances to the nearest stop under 1 Km. Keep in mind most of those remote, poorly served bus stops have no sidewalks for people to walk on and in the winter they are impossible to walk to from over a hundred meters of deep snow. Londoners are lucky people in some respects.

[@GallopCrush]

I see you close where I live. Camerwell / Lilford Road

[@richardcoughlan9629]

Silly me I didn't have a look in the description lol!!

[@dcseain]

This video seemed like a lot of fun. :-)

[@centraltransportproductions]

Amazing Guys😂 So tempting to do

[@althejazzman]

I would like to see a map of where you travelled on this challenge. I bet it's really erratic and you barely went anywhere, like a squirrel crossing a garden.

[@allthebuses7627]

It goes something like this: South, north, south, north, south, south, south, north, north, north, north, south, south, south, south, north, north, south, north, north, north, north, south, south, south...

[@althejazzman]

So 25 buses to nowhere basically?

[@joshuanichols8396]

We used a long stretch in the E&C area that had 12 bus stops to use. The objective of this was to see how many BUSES we could ride in an hour and to do this a condensed area was used.

[@althejazzman]

Of course. I was only being silly.

[@paulsengupta971]

Did you verify that all the buses were unique, i.e. you didn't get on the same one as used before coming back the other way? ;-)

[@emmapaignton4765]

I rode 5 buses travelling 2 stops per bus around Kings Cross area

[@swschilke]

The new hopper challenge should not be the number of busses but the most distance / milage within the hour @londonist

[@hublanderuk]

I wonder if you said the rule was an hour or when TfL decides to charge your oyster again since I know when I once got a hopper fare when I was 1 hour and 5 minutes after getting the first bus. So you may have been able to get to 30.

[@highpath4776]

If the break in journey does not affect tube in out that throws some of the cheap? tube routes avoiding Zone 1 that are programmed via Zone 1

[@joshuahalla.k.a.controlla6333]

U should do all the buses:)

[@joshuanichols8396]

I’ve done it. All 593 with Hugo and the rest of the @allthebuses team

[@DanielsUKT]

that is awesome and a better way for saving money does daily cap mean you can ride on any TFL bus route all day for 4.50

[@nothisispatrick5725]

Inbetween manchester piccadilly and manchester oxford road you can get on a lot of trains in an hour

[@RayEttler]

please map it out

[@norbitonflyer5625]

That would be a very dull map, as they just shuttled back and forth along the Walworth Road

[@BMF-NJ]

Thanks god for this I’ll save so much money now

[@RT_today]

Quite impressive!

[@djaf5204]

If you want to do 30 you should go up and down tottenham high road also you should have done it a bit up the road because 343 136 and p5 go there aswell in addition to the 9 buses that you did

[@allthebuses7627]

Up and DOWN Tottenham Court Road? Bit hard to do with a one way system... I think you overestimate the amount we planned this. We knew we wanted to be able to catch any bus we saw without worrying about straying into traffic or into a zone with low frequencies of buses - for that we needed a long stretch of road, not too wide, without too many cars but with lots of buses. We did actually go into 136/343/P5 territory several times - but there was no point in catching them when it would make interchange times and ride times awkward...

[@djaf5204]

Not tottenham court road, tottenham high road where 149, 243, 259, 279, 349, 123, W4, 476, 341 and 318 goes

[@allthebuses7627]

At the bottom end it's far too wide to run across whenever you want and at the top end there's too many queues!

[@djaf5204]

Ok what about Hoe St / Bakers Arms to Queens Road because after that there is too much traffic in Walthamstow Central

[@sohamedmalah6008]

I’m sure you got on the 176 like 3 times.. next time ‘riding as many routes as you can in an hour’ would be more exciting rather than just ‘as many buses’ but it was still a good video

[@TheObloINATOR777]

I got on a bus at 12:19 And the N there was traffic and the 2nd bus was at 13:26 and nothing was charged I didn't know it was 70 minutes :)

[@paulsengupta971]

Result!

[@jameswhite5281]

Me and me mate got 12 buses when we tried this in Liverpool.

[@chris3091]

If they could introduce something like this for the tube it would be great, or at least just a flat rate across every station instead of zones

[@the-chipette]

Chris Cutner Toronto has a flat rate but I fear we’re going to be adopting zoning again. Do some people wind up travelling all zones in a day?

[@DavidShepheard]

You can go from Zone 6 to Zone 6 for £150, if you avoid Zone 1: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qqjXqGiOnpmBm8k (And you are allowed more than one hour to do this, so it's actually cheaper than using the buses.)

[@JaseWolf]

Now that is fantastic pricing £150 xD

[@UrbanStories]

yes, would be great to have a similar feature for tube.

[@paulsengupta971]

£150? That must be first class.

[@asliyase]

brilliant. good effort.

[@thebuzzah]

Please post the routes you took!

[@whoisy.jxnnie6313]

I love London buses Geoff Marshall