From 2006 to 2010, I was a councillor for Lee Green ward in the London Borough of Lewisham. During that time, I blogged regularly and in 2009 I won the Tim Garden Award for the Best Blog by a Liberal Democrat Holding Public Office. My blog posts from my term of office are archived here in case they prove of use to former constituents, or to those who share my annoyance with faulty street furniture
My Lib Dem colleague Caroline Pidgeon AM has passed on the latest bus route changes to me, two of which are of particular interest to us here in Lee Green.
Route 321, which goes up Lee High Road, is to become a 24 hour service betweeen New Cross and Sidcup (Foots Cray). Buses will run every half an hour during the night and the existing operator, London Central, will continue to operate the route using existing buses.
The existing N21 night bus will continue to run, but will take a different route between Eltham and Sidcup, so it runs to Bexleyheath via Blackfen and Bexley Village. The N21 will continue to run every 30 minutes, but at weekends, extra buses will provide a 15 minute frequency between Trafalgar Square and Eltham. Again, London Central have kept the route, but will use new double deck buses.
Taken together, these two changes mean more night buses for our area (especially at weekends), which should prove useful to people who work shifts or are returning home after a night out.
