If you're not familiar with the routes, head to Trafalgar Square the hub for night buses or check any bus-stop information board. As you'd expect, services are less frequent during the night. Night buses stop on request only: so you'll need to indicate your stop clearly to the driver when boarding or alighting. Hop on a London bus tour for the perfect opportunity to appreciate the full architectural splendour of London's famous streets and monuments.
Tour guides offer historical background and interesting facts, with commentaries available in several languages. For something a little different, you can try out a themed bus tour - perhaps afternoon tea, or an eerie evening ghost tour. Some regular bus routes are good for sightseeing too — try routes 9, 14, 15 and You can also check out top sights from an iconic red London bus with these landmark-packed TfL bus itineraries , from museums and palaces to markets and pubs.
Every bus also has a retractable ramp, which must be in full working order at all times. On all buses, there is room for one person using a wheelchair. Wheelchairs can be accommodated up to a size of 70cm wide 28 inches by cm long 47 inches. Wheelchair users have priority over everyone else for use of the wheelchair space.
There is no limit on the number of assistance dogs allowed on the bus, as long as there is space. See Transport for London's accessibility guide.
Coaches are a great option for cheap travel to London from almost anywhere in the UK or Europe. Read about coaches to London. Find more traveller information. The first London buses started in , although back then they were horse powered.
You can discover the evolution of the bus up to the modern day electric vehicles at the London Transport Museum. For longer journeys, hop on a London Tube , which is the city's underground service covering 11 lines, from Zone 1 all the way to Zone 6.
Follow the coronavirus guidance for London. It's a transport phenomenon so widely recognised, it's got at least three names: bus bunching, platooning, clumping. It's all down to maths: any small delay traffic lights, traffic, passengers to a timetabled bus gives the one behind time to catch up. If the following buses' progress aren't checked, in those delays, more passengers will join the upcoming bus stops, making the first bus take longer to pull away, giving those following it even more time to speed past the now-empty stops and tuck itself in behind the back wheels of the first.
You can even play a game to prove the theory, thanks to Lewis Lehe, transport engineering PhD student at the University of California. The best things to do in London. The must-read London articles. The coolest London events from our partners. How many buses are there in London? There are 8, buses in the whole fleet, operating on routes, serving 19, bus stops. London's 'greener' buses Of the 8,, 2, are hybrid buses; 73 are electric; and the eight on the RV1 route are fuelled by hydrogen, emitting nothing but water into the air.
Report a problem with this article. X close. Londonist in your inbox Plan your day ahead or read the day's London headlines with our daily emails. Children under 11 travel free on red London buses and the Underground at all times. Child fares are available for those under 16 but it is very complex.
It is possible to get discounted fares if you are under 18 or studying in London with an Oyster ID card. There are no seniors fares for visitors. If you reside in London and are over 60 you can get a pass that makes free bus travel available and anyone with an English National Concessionary bus pass can use that on London's buses too.
When the Underground closes between about midnight and about 5am, extra night buses are put on. In the centre of London you only wait a few minutes for a bus whatever time of day or night. At weekends only the Underground now runs a service through the night on Friday and Saturdays. London's buses are zone-less. If you have a Travelcard it is valid in any zone on the buses, so if you have a Travelcard valid only for zones 1 and 2 you can use it on buses in Zone 6 if you wanted.
Use the TfL Transport for London journey planner to plan your travel. The journey planner covers all public transport. TFL Journey planner. For first-time visitors to London who can invest a little time pouring over the Central London Bus map , you can quite easily put together your own tour cheaply with just a few well chosen routes.
A simplified tourist bus map shows the key bus routes from a tourist perspective and the location of the main sights marked on the bus map. On the buses there are flat fares whether you go one stop or to the end of the route. It is not possible to pay for London bus fares in cash. Instead you can pay with a Visitor Oyster card, Oyster card, Travelcard or contactless payment card, or use a bus pass.
Just touch Oyster and Contactless payment cards on the card reader as you enter the bus. The majority of people using buses will be using Oyster cards or Contactless cards at the moment.
Make an adult journey using pay as you go contactless or Oyster card on a bus or tram, and you can make a second bus or tram journey for free within one hour of touching in on the first bus. You must touch in using the same card on the second bus. The free fare will then be applied automatically. The scope of the bus hopper fare has been expanding since to permit multiple free transfers within an hour. These fares will be subject to the usual annual fare increase If you need to change buses to make a journey.
As long as you swipe your Oyster within 1 hour on the second bus to the first bus the second journey is free. See Bus Hopper Fares section below. The Oyster card is a permanent reusable electronic ticket which is topped up from time to time by its owner. Londoners also have their season tickets loaded onto Oyster cards as well and there are passes for 7 days, monthly and annual durations. All can be loaded onto the one electronic Oyster card.
Contactless cards are standard credit or debit cards that support the contactless payment technology. Total cost of all the journeys that you make in one day is calculated at the end of the day and a single charge is made to your Contactless payment card account. Unlike the Oyster card the Contactless facility has a 7 day cap as well as the Oyster daily cap used by Oyster.
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