‘The Edgware Road took one of the biggest hits in the review of central London bus routes’

• THANKFULLY the rerouting of the No 205 was saved in the recent prospective cuts to bus routes in central London, permitting integrated transport links to be maintained between bus, rail, and tube all along the Euston and Marylebone Road and, in particular, maintaining a bus service between King’s Cross, Marylebone and Paddington.

We were less successful on the north-south link between Victoria and the Edgware Road within the city of Westminster as the No 16 bus is withdrawn from that service while the 332 maintained its service between Paddington and Kilburn but – funnily enough – now called the 16 bus route.

The N16 is lost completely. This, while the 414 bus route from Marble Arch through W9 was withdrawn only last year, which meant we had lost a service along the Edgware Road at the beginning of the calendar year.

So you can see the Edgware Road took one of the biggest hits in the review of central London bus routes, though it could have been worse.

MURAD QURESHI
@MuradQureshiLDN
www.muradqureshi.com