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| Overview | |
| Operator | Arriva London |
| Garage | Tottenham (AR) |
| Vehicle | VDL DB300 10.4m/Wright Gemini 2 |
| Peak vehicle requirement | 36 |
| Nighttime | 24-hour service |
| Route | |
| Start | London Bridge |
| Via | Shoreditch Dalston Stoke Newington Stamford Hill Tottenham |
| End | Edmonton Green |
| Length | 9 miles 14km |
| Service | |
| Level | 24-hour service |
| Frequency | 8 minutes (day) 30 minutes (night) |
| Journey time | 42-78 minutes |
| Operates | 24-hour service |
| Transport for London • Performance |
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London Buses route 149 is a Transport for London contracted bus route in London, United Kingdom. The service is currently contracted to Arriva London.
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Route 149 was introduced in 1961 to replace trolleybus route 649[1] between Waltham Cross and Liverpool Street Station. In 1968 it was extended on Mondays to Fridays to Victoria some peak hour journeys were extended from Waltham Cross to Flamstead End via Cheshunt. The route was withdrawn north of Ponders End in 1970. It was cut back to Edmonton in 1971, although a few peak hour journeys continued to serve Ponders End. Seven years later route 149 was re-extended to Ponders End at all times.[2]
In 1985 it was withdrawn between Waterloo and Victoria, and further cut back to Liverpool Street in 1991 apart from a few early Monday to Friday journeys to Mansion House Station. In the same year it was extended back to Waterloo during Monday to Friday peak hours. In 1998 the route was extended south from Liverpool St Station to London Bridge Station. The service was converted to a "bendy bus" operation in 2004 and withdrawn north of Edmonton, with new route 349 taking over.[2]
In 2005 the 149 was subject to intensive bus priority measures along the length of its route.[3] A year later the route was used to test the use of recorded stop announcements to aid visually impaired passengers.[4]
In November 2009 it was announced that articulated buses would be withdrawn from the route in October 2010 as part of a new contract.[5] The contract was retained by the route's current operator, Arriva London.[6]
On 16 October 2010, route 149 was converted back to double deck, the allocation was transferred to Tottenham garage and the PVR was increased to 36.[7]
Route 149 suffers from higher levels of crime than most routes in London. In the 2006-07 financial year the route had the sixth highest levels of reported incidents on the network. This was lower than in the previous year, when it was fifth.[8]
In 2007 the route was highlighted as having extremely high levels of pickpocketing by London Assembly member Jeanette Arnold. Ken Livingstone, then Mayor of London, was called upon to increase policing on the route, but stated that pickpocket activity had in fact decreased between 2005 and 2007.[9]
A vehicle on the route was involved in an accident in Tottenham on September 15, 2009 when a double-decker bus on route 243 crashed into it. The driver and four passengers were injured in the accident, as was the driver of the double-decker, but there were no serious injuries.[10][11]
On February 27, 2010, a bus driver on a late night working of the route was assaulted by a passenger who had failed to alight at the correct stop.[12] Two weeks earlier a driver on the route had been suspended for assaulting a pedestrian near Monument Station.[13]
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