100 Extra Night Buses this weekend

[deansullivan]

TfL are drawing up plans for 100 extra night buses this weekend. This is to provide extra capacity on the network to cope with additional England fans who are expected to converge in London this Saturday for the World Cup match. Several Bars & clubs are opening specially or have been granted late licences. The Standard had tried to get LUL running 2/47 this weekend, but at such short notice its not possible. Thus buses to the rescue! 

Article in the Standard: www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/extra-night-buses-to-get-football-fans-home-after-englands-world-cup-opener-against-italy-9512426.html  

[cstock]

It does make you wonder how they will manage night tube... Every weekend!

[Nortube]

One-off 24-hour running on the tube needs a lot of advance planning, parlty because of deferring any planned engineering work, but mainly because of how long it will take to negotiate suitable rates of pay for those staff who want to work nights :-)

Laying on x amount of extra buses is so much simpler and, more importantly, cheaper!