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!
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
@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.
@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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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
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?
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.
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.
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.
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)
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.)
> (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.
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
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.
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 ....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...!!!
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.
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!!
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...
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....
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
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)
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
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
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
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.
"Note: The 'hour' you get is *actually* 70 minutes! Try it, if you don't believe us ..." as mentioned in the description, yes. And referenced in the video, yes.
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.
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.
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.
PLEASE HELP- What if you ride a bus, then a tube within one hour but stop there and don't take another bus ride within the hour? Do you then pay only for the first bus ride or for the tube ride as well?
hey geoff been watchin you for ages and thought about this new tiicket im going to try it and see how far can go by useing 1 bus as far as can in 5o odd mins and then can get on the next one within hour and an stay on as long as can till furthest from start before i try and work out which buses whether you know and your loveley partner vick knows at all but will study ive turned into a transport nerd like u two and given up driving thinking off being a tfl based courier will small stuffi wonder if it would work must go to transport mus havent been since 09 still gratis is it ? regards
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.
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.
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)
i wonder what the furthest you co do in an hour. Like 498 from Brentwood, change at Romford (Western Road) for 86, then get the 25 from Ilford all the way to Oxford Circus... Would have to do that at Night when the services are faster though, but waiting around would kill any attempt i guess.
This should be extended to the tube, overground and DLR, and Crossrail, Thameslink and normal rail services. Perhaps with a paper ticket and having it valid for 90 minutes instead of 1 hour.
I find it lovely that the mayor interacts with things like this :)
well, he has to, transport is a huge part of city admin :)
Geoff Marshall has superstar status on Londonist
The highlight of Sadiq's career!
being boring as hell
@@thisisstuart7951 No Met extension to Watford Junction, no cycle infrastructure :/
Arguably yes.
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
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!
Zero. I can ride zero London buses in an hour.
Why? Because its a bit hard to when you live in "the Penal Colony" :)
Mac·au iii
Mac·au I could probably ride 30 buses in an hour in Brisbane
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
Only bus you need, falcon ute..
I use london buses living in london and theyre great
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 ...
this is going to make me so lazy. Sadiq is right this is great for londoners on low incomes.
@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.
@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.
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.
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.
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!
Im from the future. Your favourite bus route will be the 399 from 2020
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.
Ahh, the 12, 40, and 176. All you needed to secure the Dulwich Library quintuple was the 185 and the 197.
Must be a very interesting place!
Please hold on. The bus is about to move
wwemario12345 please hold on whilst the bus is moving....
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.
It would have been hilarious if you’d got on an X68 unwittingly.
Andrew Saffrey
Lmao
Andrew Saffrey even more hilarious if they got on an X26.
Please hold on, this video is about to move.
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.
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
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?
Paul Parkinson watch this space.... myself and the rest of @allthebuses have ideas....
Yes, I thought that was the case but think my idea has merit.
It dose count
You must be heaps of fun at parties....
Jonathan Kubiak says the one watching a video about bus fares
Sadiq seems like a nice guy
Match2100 But I'm gonna miss diesel buses
VolvoTrident ...and?
Practically Famous And I like them.
VolvoTrident Same here, but for the better they need to be changed. ( I'm gonna miss Diesel trains as well )
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.
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.
I hope that if your route takes more time than the limit (from end-to-end) you won't get charged extra.
Finally! Geoff is doing buses!
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.
London Buses One Bus At A Time blog?
So at 4:49 the announcement should have been "Please move on - the bus is about to hold."??
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.
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)
MA9494AM it’s 70 minutes in London
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)
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
In Luxemburg you can travel the *whole country* for one fare.
Ok, it's not a very big country.
I love these nerds.
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This was great. More bus videos please - or 'Secrets of the Buses' etc.
It's got to be different routes or it doesn't count! Do it again! :)
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.
"how many buses" instead of "how many bus routes"!! Though you may be interested in our documentary...
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Twitter informs me 16 different routes have been done in an hour
Yes, you can see the video of that here: ua-cam.com/video/HvQIky3l-eo/v-deo.html
Sadiq's a good chap. Nice to see him on the vid.
A little jelly here. You talked to the mayor.
More importantly - he got to talk to Geoff Marshall!
A very enjoyable video - thanks for posting!
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.
I've done the 11 lines in 42 minutes before, the current record is 33...
Nice to see you acknowledging buses too. Sadiq looking old, dealing with UK Politricks is a hard job.
Happens to all of them.
Not trying to hard enough in my book
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
I must have just missed you. I saw them filming when I got on the 343 to Druid St that morning.
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.
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.
True, but most transport systems bill you based on the journey length, on the buses since Oyster its been a fixed fare.
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.
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.)
> (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.
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
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.
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...
Tahmedur Rahman its 1-499 but yeah
And C10, P12, W8 ect
"awkward, these can be"
Yoda you are. My 50p I claim.
Bus or bus not. There is no train.
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.
171 to Bellingham, Catford Bus Garage. 176 to Tottenham Court Road. My favourites in the video :)
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!
The halt may last no longer than 30 seconds regardless of waiting passengers and only one halt per stop allowed.
@@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...!!!
DoubleDeckerAnton Timed free transfers can and will be abused.
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.
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!!
You can also see on how many different routes he travelled in an hour. ua-cam.com/video/HvQIky3l-eo/v-deo.html
Can you do all the bus operators in the one hour time frame?
impossible
I shouldn’t think so as they are so far spread and frequencies wouldn’t match.
You rode the last day of the 343 AS Abellio London
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...
Mr Khan is such a nice man. Really genuine. Better than BoJo.
Tremendous effort well done.
06:34 why does it say “£3.00 deducted - £4.45 remaining”
probably a double-rated route.
Erkin Alp Güney never heard of that. Thought it was 1.50 for all routes.
You will get used to that. A transport network with timed transfer discounts has to have expensive/exempt routes.
It doesn't, it's says "£0.00 deducted."
Geoff got to interview the Mayor of London?? He's going places ...literally.
That was a lot of fun. Hugo and Josh the next-gen Geoff Marshall?
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....
Nah, we're both rubbish at video editing :P -Hugo
My comments are patially in jest but Geoffe is inspiring new and different urban and transpo explorations.
We'll let you know if one of us regenerates into Geoff, or indeed if Geoff regenerates into one of us.
You can watch our documentary (should be linked in the description) if you want to see what I'm like when I'm tired...
This is the perfect advert for the new hopper fare, TFL should make promo material from it.
The trusty 176, always gets me home at funny hours in the morning!
152 to New Malden Foutain Roundabout and 264 to Croydon Town Centre is my favourites...
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
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)
The only guy on youtube that has ridden busses for an hour straight. Is that a record??
I saw the word 'whilst' in the description, and was pleased. I love grammatica obscura.
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
"PLEASE HOLD ON WHILST THE BUS IS MOVING"
I love buses ❤😊
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
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
*WHY IS EVERYONE IGNORING THE FACT THAT HE TALKED TO THE MAYOR?!*
Yay! No more arguing for a transfer voucher!
Nice getting Sadiq on the video!
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.
Isn't the hour actually 70 mins
MrBindo10 that is correct
"Note: The 'hour' you get is *actually* 70 minutes! Try it, if you don't believe us ..." as mentioned in the description, yes. And referenced in the video, yes.
Is that like a baker's dozen? A busser's hour?
Geoff Marshall so Geoff even if I catch two buses within a hour I would charge the same
did you say it was 70 minutes, Geoff ;-) Do they have a similar scheme on the IoW ?
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
I see you close where I live. Camerwell / Lilford Road
This is the same day that I saw u at elephant and castle station:)
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.
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.
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
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.
I'm gonna do the bus hopper in Cardiff where the buses come late or never turn up. This is gonna be hard.
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
PLEASE HELP- What if you ride a bus, then a tube within one hour but stop there and don't take another bus ride within the hour? Do you then pay only for the first bus ride or for the tube ride as well?
hey geoff been watchin you for ages and thought about this new tiicket im going to try it and see how far can go by useing 1 bus as far as can in 5o odd mins and then can get on the next one within hour and an stay on as long as can till furthest from start before i try and work out which buses whether you know and your loveley partner vick knows at all but will study ive turned into a transport nerd like u two and given up driving thinking off being a tfl based courier will small stuffi wonder if it would work must go to transport mus havent been since 09 still gratis is it ? regards
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.
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...
So 25 buses to nowhere basically?
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.
Of course. I was only being silly.
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? ;-)
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)
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.
i wonder what the furthest you co do in an hour. Like 498 from Brentwood, change at Romford (Western Road) for 86, then get the 25 from Ilford all the way to Oxford Circus... Would have to do that at Night when the services are faster though, but waiting around would kill any attempt i guess.
Just checked the planner and i didnt realise how slow us drivers drove lol
Brilliant, love your vids.
Upstairs, front seat over the driver, and stamping your feet, the best seat on the bus
please map it out
That would be a very dull map, as they just shuttled back and forth along the Walworth Road
They give you a a few minutes extra over the hour too, which is good
Silly me I didn't have a look in the description lol!!
Can you link a map of the buses you took?
is Geoff Marshall in Whetstone
Did you let the Mayor know how many you did and if so what was his response?
How long will it take until Buses run into the same situation as the Tube?
I rode 5 buses travelling 2 stops per bus around Kings Cross area
The new hopper challenge should not be the number of busses but the most distance / milage within the hour @londonist
This principle was rolled out in my country when I was 21, so nearly 27 years ago.
you could definitely do 30, if you were alone and not hampered by other people, and ran, and I mean run full speed in between buses
Hampering, really?
In Adham's version, he tries to take different routes and runs full speed. ua-cam.com/video/HvQIky3l-eo/v-deo.html
This should be extended to the tube, overground and DLR, and Crossrail, Thameslink and normal rail services. Perhaps with a paper ticket and having it valid for 90 minutes instead of 1 hour.
Sadiq said 12-15, they did 25!
Were you able to report your result to the mayor in the end and hear his comment?
How did you make those dot matrix writings? Is it a specific font?
At 1:30 really weird seeing the Dutch Railway symbol on a London Bus!