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Route 88 latest TfL network to get New Routemaster buses

Posted: 24 August 2015 | Victoria White

Bus route 88 has become the latest on the Transport for London (TfL) bus network to be served entirely by New Routemaster buses…

Bus route 88 has become the latest on the Transport for London (TfL) bus network to be served entirely by New Routemaster buses.

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A phased conversion of the route, operated by Go Ahead, which runs between Camden Town, Mornington Crescent, Warren Street, Great Portland Street, Oxford Circus, Piccadilly Circus, Trafalgar Square, Westminster, Great Smith Street, Tate Britain, Vauxhall, Stockwell, Clapham High Street, Clapham North and Clapham Common, is underway. The 24-hours-a-day service will be running entirely with New Routemaster buses by mid-September.

During peak hours, 23 of these state-of-the-art buses will be in passenger service to carry the 16,000 people who travel on the route each week day.

Route 88 will operate with the rear platform closed when the bus is moving, with large numbers of passengers able to quickly board and alight using all three sets of doors and two staircases at bus stops.

14 London bus routes are operating with New Routemaster buses

To date, 14 bus routes in London are operating with New Routemaster buses. The conversion of route 88 will be another step towards the delivery of 800 New Routemaster buses on London’s streets by 2016, reducing CO2 emissions in the Capital by around 27,500 tonnes a year.

The introduction of New Routemaster buses is part of a comprehensive programme to reduce emissions from London’s bus fleet which includes 1,700 hybrids on the street by 2016, accelerating the introduction of ultra low emission Euro VI buses and retrofitting 1,800 older buses to reduce their NOx emissions by up to 88%.

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