Happy New Year!
At last we are to see double-deckers ply the H91 route out along the A4, and it will be a 10 minute service with real-time information, starting on 9th January. This route has been a poor relation of local buses ever since I have been a Councillor, and many Brentford children (mine included) have notched up horrendours numbers of late detentions as a result of its intermittent service. It has slowly improved in the last year or so, as new funding has paid for service enhancement. These funds come from the planning gain (S106) from various developments along the A$. Improvements to H92 were not always included in the S106 list until us Councillors nagged officers to revise the draft S106 agreements.
The last tranche of funding is £430,000 from BSkyB and Capital Interchange Way. So with a better service along the A4, some of the congestion on the High Street routes might be relieved. ANd perhaps it might make local people consider using the bus instead of the car more often? (I feel a late new year resolution coming on!).
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